Hi Vagrant, On 1/14/24 22:24, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
So, I stumbled a bit with a fairly recently installed aarch64/arm64 system. The install went fine late December, but then I tried "guix system reconfigure" a couple days ago, and even though it is a very simple configuration (based on bare-bones.tmpl with grub-efi)... it pretty much needed to rebuild about 12 rust versions, as no substitutes were available on aarch64-linux. *sigh*I thought I tracked this down to guix-icons depending on librsvg, which depends on rust... and guix-icons is in %base-packages. So I dropped use of %base-packages-artwork, which pulls in guix-icons and used all the various other %base-packages-* stuff explicitly... but it still wanted to pull in guix-icons/librsvg/rust-* etc ... it just did so later in the build process... foiled again! This is because the default grub theme generates a .png from an .svg ... using guile-rsvg, which uses librsvg, which uses rust ... But this machine just has a serial console, and has no need of a background image in the grub configuration... So eventually I figured out how to get a grub theme without a background image and drop guix-icons from the configuration by avoiding use of %base-packages-artwork: (bootloader (bootloader-configuration + (theme (grub-theme (image #f))) (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader) (targets '("/boot/efi")))) - (packages (cons screen %base-packages)) + (packages (append (list screen nss-certs) + %base-packages-interactive + %base-packages-linux + %base-packages-networking + %base-packages-utils)) Maybe these is a more elegant way of doing this. So, the example bare-bones system configuration does seems to have heavy layers of rust obscuring the bones. Do we want a really-quite-bare-bones configuration example? Should guix-icons not actually be in %base-packages? Can the grub theme be implemented differently without requiring rust?
At least a PNG copy of the SVG could be created ahead of time without having to use librsvg to convert it.
This seems like possibly a discussion so far, but I would also be happy to turn this into a bug report if desired! Thanks everyone! live well, vagrant
