Re: Installer for 1.4.0

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> skribis:

> I think that it would be nice to go a bit further as people tend to use
> the stable Guix installer image and given our current release rate, the
> future 1.4.0 could last for long.

It doesn’t have to be this way.  :-)

> It would be awesome if we could tackle the following issues before the
> release:
>
> - Guile and library segfaults could be reported as proposed here:
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58733.
>
> - There is a nasty finalizer bug that has probably bitten a lot of users
>   here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58732.
>
> - The backtrace page is not displayed correctly if an exception occurs
>   withing the final PTY: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58734. This one is
>   maybe not as important but it would be great to have it fixed so that
>   every part of the installer is well covered by the dump mechanism.
>
> - Displaying upfront that the WiFi, video card or any other hardware
>   won't be supported by the installer/linux-libre in the spirit of:
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58549 would be great.

On this topic, see also the discussion at
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58357>.

>   For instance, I tested recently the installer on a laptop with an
>   unsupported WiFi card. The WiFi page is skipped altogether by the
>   installer which forces the user to plug an ethernet cable without
>   explaining why. I think we could be a bit more didactic.

Thanks for the laundry list!  I think fixing Guile-Parted crashes will
be #1 on our priority list, let’s see how it goes.

Ludo’.