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From: R Veera Kumar <vkor@vkten.in>
To: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Hi, I am R Veera Kumar - Current Outreachy selected Applicant
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:20:59 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200311165059.GA9772@tulip.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4v=phYqLjQMSCZOvhXq267EzNjjeOXZtqn3sZ79YKx=R4pkg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 11:03:00AM +0100, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Veera <vkor@vkten.in> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. márc. 11., Sze 1:31):
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:48:05AM +0100, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> > >    Hello,
> > >    Veera <[1]vkor@vkten.in> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. márc. 8., Vas
> > 8:41):
> > >
> > >      On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 09:31:32PM +0100, Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> > >      >
> > >      > To get started you should install guix. For this project it might
> > >      make
> > >      > sense to install guix system also. You should also set up a guix
> > >      > development environment, by checking out the source code, and
> > >      building it.
> > >      >
> > >      I am installing GuixSD.
> > >
> > >    How did the install go?
> > >    Could you do it? Please feel free to reach out to me should you have
> > >    any questions.
> > >
> >
> > Install from ISO did not go well. Could not complete install.
> >
> 
> What went wrong with the iso?
> Did you try the guided on the manual install?
> Was this on a VM or in bare metal?
> 

oops in bochs_drm video module actually some depended bo_ttm module.
There were kernel trap faults occurred as seen in dmesg.

> 
> > So I tried VM img install and it is successfull.
> >
> 
> I am glad that you have a working system. Please check if you have enough
> disk space, as the default VM image is small. It should be extended before
> use.
> 
> Now I am reading docs about guix. And how to get my way around.
> >
> 
> Great. The next step to contribute would be to build an unmodified guix
> from source.
> 
> Try to find out how to do that, the manual has great instructions. Should
> you have any questions feel free to reach out to us.
> 

Yes. Would that require huge internet bandwidth? I mean downloading all
the package sources. And then building it. As in other distros is it
possible to just install binary buildtools and only download the source
for needed pkgs and install them?

> >
> > >      > The usual first time contribution we recommend is to package an R
> > >      package
> > >      > from cran that has all its dependencies in guix using the
> > >      importer.
> > >      >
> > >
> > >    Best regards,
> > >    G_bor
> > >
> > > References
> > >
> > >    1. mailto:vkor@vkten.in
> > >    3. http://issues.guix.gnu.org/easy
> >
> Best regards,
> g_bor
> 


Regards,
Veera

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-11 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-07 14:08 Hi, I am R Veera Kumar - Current Outreachy selected Applicant Veera
2020-03-07 14:37 ` Veera
2020-03-07 15:19 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-07 15:47   ` Veera
2020-03-07 20:31 ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-03-08  7:41   ` Veera
2020-03-10  7:48     ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-03-11  0:31       ` Veera
2020-03-11 10:03         ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-03-11 16:50           ` R Veera Kumar [this message]
2020-03-11 17:05             ` Gábor Boskovits
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2020-03-07 14:43 Veera

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