[bug#48314] [PATCH v3] Install guix system on Raspberry Pi

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

phodina <phodina@protonmail.com> skribis:

> I've rebased the patches from Stefan and there are only two packages that 
> don't cross-compile - nss-certs and ntp.
>
> I attempted to do guix pull on Raspberry Pi 3, but it failed due to running 
> of memory - I'll attempt to test it with a swap file/partition.
>
> Or is it possible to do guix pull using a substitute so that the computation 
> wouldn't be done locally? This offloading would be really great for these 
> embedded platforms.

Normally you should be able to get substitutes, making ‘guix pull’
actually usable on these platforms.  But I’m not sure what the status is
on armhf-linux.  This platform needs love!

> From deab687c2b0540a944b48c68fa00cac4bac99b80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Petr Hodina <phodina@protonmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 10:22:14 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: nss-certs: Support cross-compilation.
>
> * gnu/packages/certs.scm (nss-certs)[arguments]: Fix unresolved
>   variable - output.

I addressed this one differently to avoid rebuilding the 600+ packages
that depends on nss-certs.

> From 98ad94f6282d8ff3a244181ecc32946ea281aa03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Petr Hodina <phodina@protonmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 10:24:46 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: ntp: Support cross-compilation.
>
> * gnu/packages/ntp.scm (ntp)[arguments]: Add configuration flag.

I added a comment explaining why this flag is needed and committed.

Should we close this issue now?

Thanks!

Ludo’.