Updating the hurd in Guix

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Damien Zammit <damien@zamaudio.com> writes:

> On 11/2/22 3:42 pm, jbranso@dismail.de wrote:
>> Way to go Damien for his 1st Fosdem GNU/Hurd presentation, which he nailed 
>> by the way!  It was an
>> awesome presentation!  If you haven't seen it yet, then you should check it 
>> out here:
>>
>> https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/dzammit/
>>
>> Thanks for your work to get more software drivers for the Hurd Damien!
>>
>
> Thank you for the encouragement, let's get more drivers working in Hurd!
> We need more people to help too.
> I think once the pci and disk is stable we will accelerate.

I suppose it would help to see what commits of what repositories and
what additional patches are required to set up a Hurd system with these
features.

I still haven’t been able to upgrade the Hurd packages in Guix because
it is not clear to me what commits and additional patches we need — and
I don’t have enough time to figure this out by myself.

Could someone please list the needed patches and commits?  (For someone
who is not experienced with Debian at all, I should say that “just use
the Debian patches!” is not actionable advice to me.)

Getting more people to use the latest versions of the Hurd increases the
likelihood of getting more contributions in that area.  With Guix it’s
easy to get a Hurd system started, and I’d be happy to help updating
things — if someone could please point out where all the code is that
should be used.

Thanks!

-- 
Ricardo