Re: GNU Guix 1.2.0rc1 available for testing!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Oleg,

Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> skribis:

> Yeeeho!  I've installed Guix 1.2.0rc1 system on a KVM virtual machine.

Yay!

> 1. Because of DHCP server is not exist on a network I cannot use TUI
> installer.

Right, it very much assumes DHCP.

> When I installed via shell, I need manually stop “networking” service
> with herd.  Otherwise “ip address” shows “169.254.182.22/16” assigned to
> “eht0” and “ip route” shows “default dev eth0 scope link” which breaks a
> network on automatically before “guix system init”.

OK.

> 2. “emacs-guix” is broken out of the box, because of incompatible
> “geiser”.  On my machine I have a dirty hack with “module-set!”, but I
> assume we could specify “emacs-geiser-0.10” in “propagated-inputs” until
> somebody have a fix :-) , but it will trigger errors if you will want to
> install “emacs-geiser” in the same profile AFAIK.
>
> (define-public emacs-geiser-0.10
>   (package
>     (inherit emacs-geiser)
>     (version "0.10")
>     (source (origin
>              (method url-fetch)
>              (uri (string-append "mirror://savannah/geiser/" version
>                                  "/geiser-" version ".tar.gz"))
>              (sha256
>               (base32
>                "0pj3l7p8d60c9b4vfprnv6g5l61d74pls4b5dvd84cn4ky9mzwjv"))))))
>
> (module-set! (resolve-module '(gnu packages emacs-xyz)) 'emacs-geiser 
> emacs-geiser-0.10)

It would be nice to include a fix, either a patch or explicitly
depending on the previous Geiser version.  (Cc: John Soo who might have
suggestions.)

Thanks!

Ludo’.