Hi everybody! I've been working on these patches and I've been able to generate a derivation with the format expected by Grub during bootloading, use it in the grub.cfg file. I removed the test for the folder inside the configuration file and added a check for the "locale" output during the file generation. Maybe it is not quite elegant, but I'm open to ideas. Now there are 4 patches instead of 3.
What do you think? Best regards, Miguel PS: I CC'ed the mailing list too looking for other ideas. El Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:17:02 +0200 Miguel <rosen644...@gmail.com> escribió: > Hello Guix! > > As a Grub translator, I've been hacking a little bit in order to > provide locale information to Grub. I use Guix in a daily basis, as my > main computer operating system, and I this is a key step in order to > provide a better experience to the all kind of users, who may do not > know other languages than their native one. > > My current idea, implemented in the following patches, is something > along these lines: > 1. Store locale information into boot-parameters file. This patch > contains a quite silly test that requires wiser review. > 2. Provide this information to the bootloader at the configuration > time. This, ideally, should provided at installation time too, but > I'm stuck seeing my first messages in english when grub asks for the > whole-disk encryption passphrase as I don't know how to create a > working core.img yet. > 3. Add a snippet to the generated grub.cfg file with the language > information. Some configurations, as /boot in a separate partition, > does not work with this patch, but take it as a proof of concept. > > Lacking points: > 1. No support for other bootloaders yet. I don't know any of them > too much, but I'm unaware of their localization support. > 2. Grub installation process is not transactional enough. I have > some ideas for that, to be discussed in another thread, although one > key point is tightly related with this topic: /boot/grub/locale > generation. Having this folder as a derivation would make explicit > the dependency, but I have to work more on this and I'm open to any > ideas. > > WDYT? > > Best regards, > Miguel
