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<zyd>what are all these guest accounts? <euandreh>probably a web portal somewhere for new users to get help but aren't used to IRC <zyd>yeah i see now. web.libera.chat. <Guest70>yes, I com from the weppage, but I will create a real account, when i fixed more important problems <euandreh>Guest70: no worries, guests are welcome :) <jgart[m]>It's possible that it might be in some random channel out in the internets that toys is not tracking <jgart[m]>I use toys to see if a package is out of date since it has repology integration <jgart[m]>But it looks stale... (Feb 6, 2022) was the last activity ;() <jgart[m]>Maybe we should resuscitate that ticket/issue? <jgart[m]>Would be cool to have that functionality in guix refresh <jgart[m]>floss is what I'll be using tonight before going to bed <mirai>drop the f and you end up with loss <vagrantc>to clarify the free as in freedom vs. free as in cost distinction <jgart[m]>Would be cool if there was a rating/certification for extensibility also. <jgart[m]>i.e. This software scores a 10 in good extensible design <jgart[m]>I'm saying that but I like Dino as a program. I just don't think it scores high on this imaginary extensibility metric that I am proposing. <jgart[m]>Profanity is probably the worst UI I've tried. <jgart[m]>Now I know why they named it what they did. <vagrantc>dino has limited configurability by design, at least, that was the response when i asked for a configurable feature <vagrantc>(or maybe not by design, but intentionally) <jgart[m]>It's obious to me that dino is not configurable by design. That's ok too <jgart[m]>This is not a metric that necessarily makes a program good or bad I think or...? <vagrantc>depends on if that one thing doesn't include what you want :) <singpolyma>Sure, but it's unconfigurable and has to be recompiled to be edited or extended <vagrantc>admittedly, i mostly have taken the approach of "if a (near) default configuration does not work well, try something else" <jgart[m]>Outsourcing dotfile configuration to a community like spacemacs or rde seems to work well for a lot of people. <jgart[m]>dwm would probably score high although it achieves the configurability through other means. A different thesis than the Emacs thesis <jgart[m]>Combining the Emacs thesis with the dwm thesis might make for really good software design <jgart[m]>I prefer qtile or stumpwm now to dwm for the same reason I prefer guix to xbps. <jgart[m]>I want my package manager and window manager to be as hackable and extensible as possible. I'm fine with Dino though for chatting. <glenda>Probably off-topic, can anyone tell me how do I change screen resolution to 1920x1080? <glenda>Already done, yes xrandr. no, main <Guest70>do all packages I install in emacs have to have a public package? <Guest70>or is the installation via melpa enough <Guest70>because I see that a lot of packages are there for emacs <vagrantc>possibly due to where it stands in the bootstrap? <rekahsoft>vagrantc: 😛; might be nice to fix it imo. I'm not sure what impact it would have on bootstrapping, but I would expect it to be mitigated via grafts. Perhaps keeping the existing glibc patch set up to date is also a burden? I haven't actually looked to see how extensive they are. <vagrantc>rekahsoft: well, having to bootstrap git before glibc seems like an interesting challenge :P <vagrantc>i am not *sure* that is why ... but it is one plausible reason <vagrantc>could be done with phases, too ... get an early enough glibc to bootstrap a minimal git ... enough to get git build system to work ... and then finally switch to a more complete glibc built from git ... <rekahsoft>vagrantc: For sure. I figure it would be possible to work around it as well (by .. beat me to it 😅) <vagrantc>everyone is waiting for someone else to beat them at it :) <glenda>I hate intel, why their wifi firmware are non-free. Gives me so much problems <karthink[m]>Guix users using texlive: What do you need to do to get latex packages to be recognized on the system? I've installed texlive-base, texlive-amsmath, tlmgr and a few other Guix packages using "guix install". <karthink[m]>1. When I try to compile a tex file with \usepackage{cancel}, for instance, I get the error that cancel.sty can't be found. <karthink[m]>2. If I run "tlmgr info cancel" however, it tells me that the package cancel is installed. <tex_milan>Hello, I am using Guix system, home config, how to create a job that runs after network is connected (wifi) and just once per day (it is a notebook)? I want it for automatic backup with borgbaclup. <jpoiret>karthink[m]: i don't think we have cancel packaged in guix <Guest70>how do i install emacs packages in guix <Guest70>I can either use package install or do it via configuiration. what is the difference? <glenda>guix install emacs will do only for user <glenda>via configuration - global, for all users <glenda>Do you install emacs packages via "guix install blahblah"? Right? <Guest70>glenda I never installed any emacs package, I just would go into emacs and use m-x package install <glenda>It will be installed for user that you use when running emacs (or if global then for all) <msavoritias>to install packages you just do "guix install <package you want>" yeah <msavoritias> (let ((default-directory "/home/fannys/.guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp")) <glenda>tar xvpf src.tgz ; cd src ; mk all ; mk install :3 <msavoritias>(let ((default-directory "/home/fannys/.guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp")) <Guest70>msavoritias do you also use package install inside emacs in guix? <msavoritias>no. I only install pacakges with guix. makes it easier and declarative <Guest70>msavoritias nice, love it, thanks for the code. <msavoritias>just a note that it was pasted wrong for some reason. So check the page I sent instead ^^ <Guest70>how do you cope with your flathub programs and put them into your config? <unmatched-paren>lilyp: aha, i'm specifically talking about juix.org, that wasn't a typo :) <glenda>unmatched-paren: I got ThinkPad T42 today! <glenda>I want to try run GNU/Hurd here later. <jpoiret>unmatched-paren: you should ask lechner I think <Guest70>efraim how do you now all programs you want to install after installation <efraim>Guest70: I do a normal 'flatpak install foo' <Guest70>efraim mhh, looked at my flatpak and I dont have an export directory, just a "repo" directory. Do you have any idea why this is ? <efraim>the binaries are symlinked into ~/.local/share/flatpak/export/bin/, do you have any installed? <efraim>or perhaps they're installed globally? <Guest70>efraim I just have one appliaction installed atm <tex_milan>How to create a config file in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ ? Trying to use etc-config-service and got guix system: error: symlink: File exists: "/etc/NetworkManager". <Guest70>what is a network manager for, tex_milan? <tex_milan>Let's focus on the problem folks. Don't pick up the NetworkManager. Let's say there is already /etc/A, and I want to create a config file /etc/A/something/my.conf. How to do it? <glenda>your_editor /etc/A/something/my.conf <tex_milan>glenda: Hmm, direct approach :) But then I could stay at ARCH. I want it in my system config. I am using guix system. <jpoiret>tex_milan: you should extend etc-service-type <jpoiret>I think it's described in the manual <tex_milan>jpoiret: I did that. But because there already is the A folder.... yep. <jpoiret>do you have a snippet of the code that you're using? <tex_milan> (simple-service 'networkmanager-borgmatic etc-service-type <tex_milan> (list `("NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/borgmatic.sh" <jpoiret>please use paste.debian.net for pastes <tex_milan>I see that the file itself must not be there as it will be a link to storage, but what's the issue with the folder itself? <efraim>tex_milan: does that work for you? I tried to add an /etc/ssh/known_hosts file like that and git the same 'File exists: "/etc/ssh"' error <jpoiret>basically, the target of an entry in that list needs to be a directory or a file directly, you can't give it a path (at least I don't think so) <jpoiret>and additionally, since you can only have one entry per directory/file in /etc, if the file/directory already exists Guix will give an error from what I can read <tex_milan>Thanks, will try. Also how can I make that file executable? Adding * to simple-file? <jpoiret>but I think that's not the proper way to do it, rather the file-union in the etc-service-type's definition should somehow say that conflicts aren't permitted <jpoiret>tex_milan: it will be u+x by default since it's in the store <jpoiret>does anyone know if cmake's unix makefiles generator supports parallel make? <jpoiret>i'm getting some subdirectory ordering issues when upgrading qt 6, a tool hasn't been built yet when it gets used somewhere else <Guest70>how do I now which emacs package I take, the one from elpa or the one from guix? <Guest70>which I installed through the configuration <Guest70>or does it come down whether I use emacs-guix or normal emacs? <tex_milan>jpoiret: I used file-union and got the same error. <mirai>what's the difference between %default-imported-modules and %default-modules in gnu/services/shepherd.scm ? <jpoiret>efraim: I'm upgrading to 6.5.0 on core-updates <jpoiret>the number of cores shouldn't matter too much, I have 4 I think <jpoiret>tex_milan: do you have a snippet of that? <efraim>jpoiret: sounds good to me. meson was just bumped anyway on core-updates, that has a bajillion dependencies <jpoiret>it's mostly because the ssl tests failing were fixed starting from 6.4, and I'd much rather have that than disable them <tex_milan>jpoiret: jpoiret, I just don't know how to use it. <jpoiret>ah no, you still have the same issue, the target should be NetworkManager, and then you should build a directory with dispatcher.d inside, with a file inside <jpoiret>looks annoying, maybe somewhere in the guix source there's an easy way to do that <jpoiret>seems like we should be using Ninja to build Qt <jpoiret>yep, don't seem to be running into the same bug with the Ninja CMake generator, and the configure script warns you if you're using Unix <jpoiret>hmmm, maybe I'm wrong then, I haven't tried this myself <mirai>about this activation-service extension thing, I've spotted a weakly related but significant problem <mirai>The usual pattern is that they're used essentially to do: (mkdir-p <(dirname …)|…>) followed by (chown … (passwd:uid …) …) <mirai>but suppose someone configures a field like log-dir to /var/log (or log-file to /var/log/foo.log) <mirai>then the activation snippet would chown /var/log to foo:foo, hardly something you'd want <jpoiret>mirai: wouldn't that just be a misconfiguration from the user though? <mirai>jpoiret: yes, but it's a rather subtle one <mirai>it would be quite unexpected to do a reconfigure and find out one day that /var/lib has been chown'd to some random user <mirai>it's possible to do a rudimentary check to eliminate possible mistakes (via a sanitizer or before calling chown), if there's a list of directories that should be protected <Guest70>can anybody help me pleas, how do I install exwm in guix. is there a xsession directory somewher, which I have to populate? <msavoritias>if you use gdm all you have to do is add exwm in your system config and then 'sudo guix system reconfigure' <attila_lendvai>i think i have a memory leak in my shepherd service code. it's using fibers. i wonder if there are any tools to track it down. wild guess: is for-each breaking tail calls? i doubt... but that's my current best idea. <attila_lendvai>but when i stop the service, and i see from the log that the fiber i started exits... PID 1's memory usage still doesn't decrease from 1GB. <Guest70>msavoritias that worked, thank you. I thought it is enough to have this package installed in emacs. The only problem, I still have is that I have to say exwm, that I have two monitors. How am I able to configure this in exwm in guix. In ubuntu, there is something called like xsession <Guest70>msavoritias Could you help me at this by any chance? <Guest70>msavoritias I just found, that I just have to put it into my config <Guest70>msavoritias it works, I just had to put it into my emacs config, thank you so much for your support <Guest70>emacs plus exwm plus guix, now I am happy <sarg>hey guix, is there a procedure to add another `requires` to a shepherd service? I want `networking` to depend on my service which sets up a networking bridge. <sarg>dhcp-client-service-type <mirai>you can specify what a service X will depend on but you can't do “service X is wanted by …” <mirai>so, you want dhcp-client-service-type to depend on another service? <mirai>hmm… there are some issues involved here <mirai>the thing is, dhcp-client-service-type provides 'networking <mirai>and 'networking is more or less understood to be the service that configures... networking, that includes setting up interfaces, etc. <mirai>so people usually either use static-networking-service-type or NetworkManager/connman <sarg>bridges are not supported in guix atm <mirai>dhcp-client service type is a really simple service that you'd use only when you have a simple interface and don't need anything fancy <mirai>there's also the fact that it will only do dhcpv4 (or dhcpv6) but not both at the same time <mirai>what I suggest is that you use NetworkManager instead <mirai>configure the bridges there and dhcp <mirai>you'll have to write the .nmconnection files and manually provision them since NM will complain that their permissions are too lax <mirai>(which kinda makes sense since these files can store credential data for vpn, etc.) <sarg>it's a headless server, I'd rather not use the bloated NM <sarg>I'll just extend my bridge setup script to run dhclient as well <mirai>you can perfectly use NM without the GUI <sarg>I aim for simplicity, and NM doesn't fit here at all <mirai>ok... but before you write NM off, I'd like to say that using NM will give you dhcp for both ipv4+ipv6 and that it actually can signal when the 'networking service is truly “up” <mirai>this is important if you have any services that depend on a networking interface being up (such as opensmtpd) <sarg>does it boot properly without internet access? <mirai>and that a manually cooked solution will probably end up more complex as well <tex_milan>mirai: how does it signal it? how can I run my script on such signal in guix? <mirai>tex_milan: the NM guix service has recently gained the nm-wait-online.service equivalent <mirai>the *online* part is misleading, it actually means _NM has finished booting up and configuring interfaces_ <sarg>mirai: hmm, `(shepherd-requirement network-manager-configuration-shepherd-requirement (default '(wpa-supplicant)))`. Why there is no such thing for `dhcp-client-service-type` ? <mirai>sarg: one one remembered to?😉 <mirai>you can add one, but keep in mind that the symbol 'networking is supposed to be in charge of all networking affairs <mirai>should you someday swap dhcp-client-service-type for something else, you're likely to face strange interactions <sarg>wdym by manual provision of .nmconnection files? They go to `/etc/NetworkManager`, right? You don't manage them with guix? <mirai>they go to /etc/NetworkManager, yes <mirai>but they should not be handled by guix <mirai>.nmconnection files can contain credential data <mirai>which if you handle with guix, ends up in the store which is world readable <mirai>and NM will complain loudly that the .nmconnection file permissions are too lax and refuse to use them <tex_milan>and my another problem is that in /etc/NetworkManager/ there can be folder dispatcher.d with user scripts that are run on network events. And apparently you cannot create them with guix... <mirai>what happens if you place scripts there? <tex_milan>I want my Guix OS system scm config to place them there. Not manually. I am not on ARCH anymore. <sarg>I'm fine with putting creds in the store, as the store is on the same machine. And for the permissions afaik one can use `local-file` with `recursive` flag. <tex_milan>> How to create a config file in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ ? Trying to use etc-config-service and got guix system: error: symlink: File exists: "/etc/NetworkManager". <mirai>tex_milan: certain things will have to be done manually, when they involve credential data <mirai>in theory you can do full auto but I don't know anyone who does it <mirai>the script thing is likely unrelated <mirai>something might be competing for the same directory <mirai>will have to dig into guix to find out what's happening <tex_milan>The /etc/NetworkManager folder is created by guix NetworkManager service. There is folder with connections (user configured). <tex_milan>But why it should care when I want to manage dispatcher.d subfolder...? <mekeor[m]>hello. let's assume i'm working on a software project using a local checkout of its source code and i can build it with "make". when i run "make" a second time, it will only recompile the changed files and use previously built object-files for the unchanged files. but when i use guix to build the software project, and do so a second time, can i make guix reuse object-files somehow? or could we implement such a feature somehow?