Re: Guix at the Open Bioinformatics Codefest 2014 hackathon

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Haha, demo effect.  :-)  What kind of difficulties was it?  Relating to
>> substitutes?  (hydra.gnu.org has been suffering from DoS over the last
>> couple of weeks...)
>
> Yeah, the substitutes not working made my demo of installing emacs on
> my Debian machine with Guix fail.  The other problem was my own,
> because I forgot to authorize hydra.gnu.org in the VM image I was
> showing off.  I guess it didn't matter in the end, because substitutes
> weren't working at all.  I was at least able to show them an
> operating-system definition, create a VM image from it, and boot it
> with qemu.

OK.

>> We can host the slides in guix-maintenance.git and/or on the web page if
>> you want.
>
> Yeah, they're really basic, but I can commit them to guix-maintenance
> for good measure.  Do I have commit access to that repo since I'm in
> the guix group on savannah?

Yes, I think so.

Thanks!

Ludo’.