Hello, what you intend does sound very interesting. As for “guix time-machine”, I do not see the problem:
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@cyberdimension.org> writes: > But then we would still like to somehow make guix time-machine > --commit=<hash> work automatically, so we need to somehow fetch that > revision, and if possible without touching the current guix revision > not to mess up the system of people that also use Guix for other > things. For that we probably need to add an option to guix pull and > upstream that. > > Since that could take some time, we could start by detecting if the > revision we need is not there and in that case at the same time point > users to the Guix manual to run guix pull, and warn about the issue of > changing guix revision, store the older guix revision in a well known > place and provide instructions to restore it. “guix time-machine” is confined to the store and does not leave traces, like “guix build” and unlike “guix pull”. It is basically “guix pull” without traces. > We already added grub-coreboot in Guix Ahh that was your work, GNU Booters; great job! (Although I have no machine to try yet.) > What you suggested could indeed be the way to go: replace the code to > at least install and configure Guix with a pointer to the installation > section of the official Guix manual, and improve it along the way if we > need to (by mentioning more distro packages for instance). This should > take care of the substitutes configuration issue. Simplifying install docs is being discussed and we would like more feedback: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/69977 At the same time, me citing the Arch Wiki’s negative stance on distros’ guix packages <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-03/msg00068.html> and the dealing with the recent Guix local privilege escalation vulnerability <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-03/msg00238.html> hopefully will not cost us our Debian package. > As for supporting various guix build options (like '-c, --cores=N', > '--max-jobs=N'), we could probably make that configurable in GNU Boot > with the help of autotools. I do not know, but maybe the Autotools of Guix itself use something like this to deal with “make -j4”. I’m looking forward to reading much of the info you gave in this mail on a GNU Boot website, or if the info is there already I just missed it. Regards, Florian
