From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Providing a Guix System images catalog.
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 22:42:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rn7hhl6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zckvxp3.fsf@gnu.org> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Mon, 25 May 2020 17:30:48 +0200")
Mathieu Othacehe writes:
Hello Mathieu,
> To build a Guix System image, one needs to pick an operating system file
> and call "guix system disk-image my-os.scm" to get an image.
>
> While this works fine on desktop, this is more tricky for the embedded
> devices. Which operating system to select in "examples" folder? What's
> the difference between --system and --target, which one should I use?
>
> This attached, wip patch, allows to run (on wip-hurd-vm branch):
>
> guix system image hurd-disk-image
>
> instead of:
>
> guix system disk-image --target=i586-pc-gnu gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl
That's pretty nice! I wonder about how this composes; if I'd want to
add say a guix-daemon service to the bare-hurd, how would I do that?
What I also like about "gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl" is that it's
easy to imagine where to make such a change.
Greetings,
Janneke
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-25 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-25 15:30 Providing a Guix System images catalog Mathieu Othacehe
2020-05-25 20:42 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
2020-05-25 22:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-26 7:13 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-06-23 8:17 ` Mathieu Othacehe
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