Re: Help with a basic GuixSD installation

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> "Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" <clacke+gmail@lysator.liu.se> skribis:
>>
>>> So *that's* what the mysterious (title 'label) means!
>>
>> It’s not that mysterious:
>
> IMO, 'title' is a very confusing name for that field, because its value
> is not the title of anything, but rather determines how the value of the
> 'device' field will be interpreted.

Yeah, it’s not satisfying, but I didn’t have any better idea.

> However, to go a bit further: it would be great if all 'device' fields
> in the OS config used a consistent syntax for specifying devices by
> label or uuid.  I prefer to reference my swap partition by label, so I
> use "/dev/disk/by-label/…" in 'swap-partitions', but the lack of
> symmetry with 'file-system' grates on me.

Right, that’s a problem.

> Here's an idea: the values of device fields could be either strings or
> lists of the form:
>
>   (uuid "6f8ab…")
>   (label "foo")
>
> Thoughts?

What about a <device> data type?

  (device
    (kind 'uuid)
    (value "6f8ab…"))

Ludo’.