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<gnutec>Install guix with gnome (XFCE had only 10MB) is a good idea. Comes with Browser, PDF reader, Image view e many other basic app. I just need install emacs, transmission, gnumeric, abiword and VLC (to open MP4, MKV and others).

<leoprikler>instead of vlc, you can also add some gst-plugins and totem will eat those formats as well :)

<peanutbutterandc>Hey there, I have been getting these build failures for a custom package and I would really appreciate some help in reviewing them. I am new to guix and packaging in general

<peanutbutterandc>Here is my package definition as of right now: https://paste.debian.net/1110731/

<peanutbutterandc>and here is the build failure log: https://paste.debian.net/1110732/

<peanutbutterandc>I am rather surprised by "Can't locate IO/String.pm in @INC (you may need to install the IO::String module)". It is defined as a (propagated input) in the chordpro package definition

<peanutbutterandc>Also, there's this line about requiring Test::CPAN::Changes, and it is this one: https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::CPAN::Changes and yet, guix import cpan Test::CPAN::Changes gives me "guix import: error: failed to download meta-data for package 'Test::CPAN::Changes'"

<nckx>peanutbutterandc: On that CPAN page you can see the actual package name is CPAN::Changes, already in Guix as perl-cpan-changes.

<peanutbutterandc>nckx, Thank you; You've become my unofficial supervisor in my journey to guix mastery. Haha

<nckx>As for IO::String, all I can say is add it as an input to perl-font-ttf itself, since lib/Font/TTF/Table.pm actually tries to ‘use IO::String’ (i.e. it's not a transient dependency).

<peanutbutterandc>Now, another question is that, since this package is only needed to run tests, where should this input be declared? In the same block as the other inputs? (propagated-input?)

<nckx>Test inputs (like all build-time-only inputs) are usually native-inputs.

<nckx>Usually = always unless good reason 🙂

<peanutbutterandc>nckx, I see. Please forgive me but what is a transient dependency?

<nckx>Sorry, my typo. I meant to say transitive.

<peanutbutterandc>nckx, The wikipedia page seems a bit too complex for me. Could you please explain it to me in simple terms?

<nckx>I only mentioned it since you talked about propagation above. It *would* have been possible that Font::TTF didn't contain a single use of IO::String, but that it was use'ing another module that needed it. *Had* that been the case, the error message would probably have been the same, but the fix different: instead of adding IO::String to Font::TTF's inputs, you'd add it to <that module>'s.

<nckx>I hope that makes sense, I'm tired and about to go to bed.

<peanutbutterandc>nckx, I will try to re-read and make sense of it. Thank you very much. Good Night (from GMT+5:45)

<nckx>Actually, why do you think that ‘[IO::String] is defined as a (propagated input) in the chordpro package definition’ would solve ‘Can't locate IO/String.pm in @INC’ for the perl-font-ttf package?

<nckx>perl-font-ttf never gets chordpro as input.

<nckx>Were you perhaps confused?

<nckx>One of us is 🙂

<peanutbutterandc>nckx, I don't really know. I'm using the simpleton assumption that all interpreted libraries go under propagated input. And perhaps I chose the wrong package to declare the propagated inputs in. This is my first attempt at this, really. I'm still a huge n00b.

<nckx>(UTC+2 here)

<nckx>peanutbutterandc: Oh, no, propagation doesn't mean ‘interpreted’ at all (although there's a certain correlation).

<peanutbutterandc>nckx, Yes, it seems I have a lot to learn... I will try to figure things out from here based on the information you have given me. I'd hate to keep you awake for now. Perhaps if I haven't figured this out later, I could ask you again.

<nckx>Deal!

*nckx → 😴

<peanutbutterandc>:)

<thomassgn>trying to run sway, got error: "[backend/drm/atomic.c:57] LVDS-1: Atomic commit failed (modeset): permission denied" Anyone familiar with this?

<ison[m]>thomassgn: I just know one way sway differs from i3 is it includes display and input properties in the config file. So maybe you just need to configure them. Does running "swaymsg -t get_outputs" list LVDS-1?

<peanutbutterandc>If anyone here has the time, I would be very grateful if they could review my (first ever) package definition: https://github.com/peanutbutterandcrackers/guix-packages/blob/master/chordpro.scm I would, in the very near future, like to be able to be competent enough to add this to the gnu distribution itself. Thank you (:

<vagrantc>have you run "guix lint" on it?

<peanutbutterandc>vagrantc, No, not yet. I don't think I have read up on `guix lint`. I will look it up right away. Thank you very much

<vagrantc>it checks for common issues in packages

<oriansj>is there any particular reason why guix pull is resulting in a full bootstrap build of guile? Even though bootstrapped gcc already exists on the system?

<oriansj> https://paste.debian.net/1110827/

<leoprikler>probably so that user guix can function without depending on the underlying system

<leoprikler>might be helpful on foreign systems

<oriansj>leoprikler: that would be fine but bootstrapped gcc is part of /gnu/store/'s contents

<oriansj>aka, you already did all the work to bootstrap guix on that system; so why are you doing it all over again for guix pull?

<leoprikler>oriansj: perhaps one of the packages changed in some way and needs rebuilding?

<leoprikler>I'm pretty sure it won't build packages again that it already has

<leoprikler>that said, `guix gc` might inadvertently delete some

<leoprikler>especially with grafts

<ng0>if I asked this before, I'm sorry. Does linux-libre have "net/ieee80211_radiotap.h" ?

<ng0>I'm trying to gather information for https://bugs.gnunet.org/view.php?id=5896

<leoprikler>doesn't seem like it

<leoprikler>(did `guix build linux-libre --source` and then opened the tar.xz with file-roller)

<leoprikler>oops

<leoprikler>ended in the wrong dir, include/net does have ieee80211_radiotap.h

<ng0>thanks!

<ng0>i supposed this is 4.x or whatever Linux is on now? 5.x?

<leoprikler>i did it with 5.x

<ng0>ah. can you publish the file somewhere so that I can diff it to linux and to the original netbsd source? or does linux-libre have a full source now?

<leoprikler>just do `guix build linux-libre[@VERSION] --source`

*ng0 writes this from NetBSD 9

<ng0>I'll search the source

<leoprikler>do you have a Guix somewhere?

<ng0>not at the moment

<ng0>oh too early

<ng0>i could just grab the release tarball

<ng0>thanks :)

<reepca>sanity check: how exactly can an umounted filesystem that hdparm reports as having "readonly = 0 (off)" be considered "read-only" by fsck?

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