Re: [GSoC] Porting GuixSD to GNU/Hurd Update

2016-08-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Manolis, Manolis Ragkousis skribis: > On Hurd though, because of the lack of mount(), the above could not > work. But with the help of my libhurdutil library, which I wrote at the > beginning of this project, I created 2 wrappers inside > nix/libutil/call.(hh.cc) for mount() and umount2(),

[GSoC] Porting GuixSD to GNU/Hurd Update

2016-08-15 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Hello Guix, Hello Hurd, As GSoC is coming to an end I think it's time to sum up my work till now, report issues I had and then talk about what our next steps are. First I would like to mention what were the two main objectives of the project and also what was the status of the port when the proje

Re: [GSoC] Porting GuixSD to GNU/Hurd Update 1

2016-05-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Manolis! Manolis Ragkousis skribis: > We already knew that the guix-daemon was not working properly on the > Hurd. I looked more into it and I found that if you do a build with > Guix and it fails, and then you retry again, the next one will create a > new build directory in /tmp/ as it shou

[GSoC] Porting GuixSD to GNU/Hurd Update 1

2016-05-30 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Hello everyone, One week passed since the beginning of the coding phase of GSoC, so I think it's time to give you an update on my progress. In the previous weeks I tried to get me prepared as much as possible and get a better idea of what needs to be done. I concentrated on getting familiar with