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bug#40839: Shepherd activation .GO files are not cross-compiled ... and
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
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bug#40839: Shepherd activation .GO files are not cross-compiled ... and the Hurd |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:20:36 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Mathieu Othacehe writes:
Hello Mathieu!
> I had a look to (gnu system hurd), this is really nice! I think we could
> try an explosive mixture of our two branches :)
Sure, why not? ;-) I played a bit yesterday with wip-disk-image. Not
that (gnu system hurd) already lives on core-updates; possibly we can
start playing there? I tried rebasing wip-disk-image on core-updates
and that was (almost?) painless.
> More seriously, we could do something like:
>
> (define hurd-disk-image
> (image
> (format 'disk-image)
> (partitions
> (list
> (partition
> (size 'guess)
> (label "Guix_image")
> (file-system "ext2")
> (flags '(boot))
> (initializer (gexp initialize-hurd-root-partition)))))))
Sweet!
> then we could have some mapping in guix/scripts/system.scm to
> associate:
>
> * x86_64-linux -> efi-disk-image
> * i586-pc-gnu -> hurd-disk-image
>
> and one could get a hurd disk-image by typing:
>
> guix system disk-image --target=i586-pc-gnu my-hurd-os.scm
Oh, that sounds real great.
> One problem that can arise is the installation of grub. Currently
> wip-disk-image does not support legacy Grub (MBR based)
> installation.
>
> This is because running grub-install needs root permissions, to mess with
> /dev/something in order to write the MBR I guess.
Hmm...so we need to do some work, is that bad?
> We could also create a Hurd ISO if grub-mkrescue (that is used to make
> the ISO bootable), supports the Hurd.
>
> Adding Ludo that might have some insight here.
Hopefully -- this is also pretty out of my comfort zone, otoh I am
very motivated to get this going. :-)
I have been wondering about the branch name in combination with its
functionality: can/will/could "wip-disk-image" also be used for
guix system init/reconfigure (we don't have qemu on the Hurd)?
Greetings,
janneke
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