Re: GSoC ideas

2016-03-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Manolis Ragkousis skribis: > On 03/02/16 23:31, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> Other options include calling out to the ‘settrans’ command (inelegant >> IMO), writing Guile bindings for some of the Hurd libraries, and/or some >> sort of a MiG in Scheme (neat but takes some time!). > > We could

Re: GSoC ideas

2016-03-04 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Hey On 03/02/16 23:31, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Do you have examples of GNU/Linux uses that would make no sense? > After a quick look in mount's man page I think that maybe Roland was referring to some flags (like relatime for example) that when passed to mount, expect the Linux kernel to handle

Re: GSoC ideas

2016-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ludovic Courtès, on Wed 02 Mar 2016 22:31:41 +0100, wrote: > Samuel Thibault skribis: > > It can both help and hurt. Roland's concern is that we will probably not > > want to provide a mount() that behaves like Linux, because in some cases > > it may just not even make sense. So the "ported" softw

Re: GSoC ideas

2016-03-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Samuel Thibault skribis: > Ludovic Courtès, on Wed 02 Mar 2016 11:09:28 +0100, wrote: >> Manolis Ragkousis skribis: >> > 1) Merge wip-hurd branch. >> > 2) Make the daemon handle chroot builds on the Hurd. >> > Note here that on the Hurd, one does not need to be root to achieve >> > isolation, so

Re: GSoC ideas

2016-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ludovic Courtès, on Wed 02 Mar 2016 11:09:28 +0100, wrote: > Manolis Ragkousis skribis: > > 1) Merge wip-hurd branch. > > 2) Make the daemon handle chroot builds on the Hurd. > > Note here that on the Hurd, one does not need to be root to achieve > > isolation, so I should change the daemon to use

Re: GSoC ideas

2016-03-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! I realize I hadn’t responded to Manolis. Another +1 from me! Some random comments: Manolis Ragkousis skribis: > Before May: > > 1) Merge wip-hurd branch. > 2) Make the daemon handle chroot builds on the Hurd. > Note here that on the Hurd, one does not need to be root to achieve > isolatio

Re: GSoC ideas

2016-02-28 Thread Richard Braun
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:12:25PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Just sending my big +1 on this project :) Same here. I'd like to note that I'm personally pushing so that we have less students but with better projects. This one definitely fits. -- Richard Braun

Re: GSoC ideas

2016-02-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Just sending my big +1 on this project :) Samuel

Re: GSoC ideas

2016-02-12 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Andreas Enge writes: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 01:46:30PM +0200, Manolis Ragkousis wrote: >> As I am still a student I would like to suggest continuing the project >> of porting Guix to GNU/Hurd in this GSoC as well, with the objective of >> having a working GuixSD/Hurd by the end of the summer.

Re: GSoC ideas

2016-02-11 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Manolis Ragkousis writes: > Hello everyone, > > As I am still a student I would like to suggest continuing the project > of porting Guix to GNU/Hurd in this GSoC as well, with the objective of > having a working GuixSD/Hurd by the end of the summer. > > After discussions with Justus and Samuel in

Re: GSoC ideas

2016-02-11 Thread Andreas Enge
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 01:46:30PM +0200, Manolis Ragkousis wrote: > As I am still a student I would like to suggest continuing the project > of porting Guix to GNU/Hurd in this GSoC as well, with the objective of > having a working GuixSD/Hurd by the end of the summer. Sounds great, I hope it wil

Re: GSoC ideas

2016-02-11 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Hello everyone, As I am still a student I would like to suggest continuing the project of porting Guix to GNU/Hurd in this GSoC as well, with the objective of having a working GuixSD/Hurd by the end of the summer. After discussions with Justus and Samuel in FOSDEM about the Guix-Hurd port I am st