From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 44353@debbugs.gnu.org, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>,
Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#44353: [PATCH version-1.2.0 v2] guix: system: Add a new '--non-volatile' option for disk-image.
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 22:45:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sb25m6s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201112070917.11794-1-maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Thu, 12 Nov 2020 02:09:17 -0500")
Hi Maxim,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
> * guix/scripts/system.scm (%options)[volatile-root?]: New boolean option.
> (%default-options): Set its default value to #f.
> (show-help): Add help doc.
> * guix/scripts/system.scm (perform-action): Propagate option...
> (system-derivation-for-action): ...here. Use it to set the volatile-root?
> field of the image object passed to SYSTEM-IMAGE.
> * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Document it.
Due notably to the “string freeze”, I think we shouldn’t apply it to
‘version-1.2.0’.
Some comments:
> +@code{disk-image}. By default, the root file system of a disk image is
> +mounted volatile; the @option{--non-volatile} option can be used to make
That’s not generally the case, though in (gnu system image), only two
image types have it set to false.
Before the new image API though, ‘disk-image’ did not produce a volatile
root, IIRC. I’m tempted to think that we should set (volatile-root?
#f) on image types where it makes sense, which is maybe all of them
except ISO. (Then we need to make sure ‘guix system vm’ still gets a
volatile root.)
WDYT, Mathieu?
So apart from the sentence above, the patch LGTM for ‘master’!
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-15 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-31 16:47 bug#44353: guix system disk-image -t raw fails with grub-efi-bootloader Jesse Gibbons
2020-11-07 7:09 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-07 9:08 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-07 11:26 ` Bengt Richter
2020-11-07 20:32 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-08 11:04 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-12 3:57 ` bug#44353: [PATCH version-1.2.0 v2 1/3] image: Remove conflicting user-provided EFI file system Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-12 3:57 ` bug#44353: [PATCH version-1.2.0 v2 2/3] bootloader: grub: Skip install-grub-efi when producing a disk image Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-12 8:42 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-17 18:29 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-12 3:57 ` bug#44353: [PATCH version-1.2.0 v2 3/3] doc: Detail which bootloader get used with disk-image or vm-image Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-12 8:45 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-12 21:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-12 8:39 ` bug#44353: [PATCH version-1.2.0 v2 1/3] image: Remove conflicting user-provided EFI file system Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-17 18:37 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-12 7:09 ` bug#44353: [PATCH version-1.2.0 v2] guix: system: Add a new '--non-volatile' option for disk-image Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-12 8:36 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-12 14:59 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-12 17:06 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-17 14:44 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-12 21:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-16 2:48 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-15 21:45 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-11-16 3:47 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-16 9:23 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-16 13:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-16 13:34 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-17 20:21 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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