Guile Load Path is a place (or more precisely places), where Guile looks for the source code. This is the first thing one needs to set correctly to work on a Guile Scheme project. It makes Guile aware both of your own modules and external dependencies. For more details refer to Load Paths page in Guile Reference Manual. This guide will focus on getting and setting the right values for it and discussing different approaches to do so.
A blog post documented an elegant way to configure screenshots in
wayland using grim and grimshot. After moving my sway config to use
the GUIX sway-service to generate the config file Iost my configured
screenshot bindings.
In our efforts to create a Tiny Build Farm for Guix, that is supposed
to report on the status of the packages assigned to the science team,
so far we have seen how to
set up
the required infrastructure.
On a dedicated machine with Guix as its operating system, we have added
several Shepherd services:
the Guix Build Coordinator together with a build agent;
and the web server part of the BFFE, which enables us to follow the
activity of the builders.
For performance reasons, we have renounced at installing an instance of the
Guix Data Service, and opt instead for talking to the instance operated
by the Guix project at https://data.guix.gnu.org/, which
continually evaluates the Guix master branch and creates derivations for
all packages in the distribution.
The next step is to explore how to programmatically talk to the remote
data server from a Guile script, how to extract derivations we are
interested in, and how to submit them for building to our instance of the
build coordinator.
This fictional story begins more than 10 years ago. I was a student at technical university and was confused by how outdated some of the programming-related courses are. I was checking out a few first lections and usually skipping the rest of them (except a couple courses that were fun and uptodate). In my spare time I was tinkering on gentoo linux, cybersecurity and competitive programming (codeforces, ACM ICPC, etc). I wanted to start working ASAP, so that I could finally get to the most interesting part, but man, how wrong I was...
Today we're launching a fundraising campaign to sustain and strengthen GNU Guix. Guix is completely independent from any company or institution, we rely on the support of our community to fund the project. If you can, please help sustain Guix by making a donation . DONATE NOW Why we need your support Like many Free Software projects we need financial support because running a project is expensive. We incur costs for development infrastructure, facilitating developer collaboration and supporting the community around the project. As a package manager…
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A cloud-init service for Guix is still a work in progress. Meanwhile, here's how you can deploy Guix on DigitalOcean right away.
Complex end-to-end tests in development repositories involving packages written in several languages are a chore to describe and maintain. Often, the only recourse is to pull in pre-built binaries or haul around heavy Docker images. Could there be a better way? Could it be Guix (spoiler alert: yes!)?
In the last few months, I have installed and upgraded my second preferred GNU/Linux system, GNU Guix, on multiple boxes. Regarding that system, I have already written a few introductory posts in the recent past. This is an update about my experiences as a user and developer. I still think Guix is a giant step forward in packaging and management, in comparison with Debian and other distributions, for elegance and inner coherence.
A security issue, CVE-2025-59378 , has been identified in guix-daemon , which allows for a local user to gain the privileges of any of the build users and subsequently use this to manipulate the output of any build. In the case of the rootless daemon, this also means gaining the privileges of guix-daemon . All systems are affected, whether or not guix-daemon is running with root privileges. You are strongly advised to upgrade your daemon now (see instructions below). The only requirements to exploit this are the ability to create and build an arbitrary derivation that has …