From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: Re: Installer: GUIX_IMAGE as /dev/sda on some hardware? Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 19:29:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87a7f6qygw.fsf@nckx> References: <874l5i52i1.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> <87r28mzqxv.fsf@nckx> <87y32u3c9f.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> <87o93mwr4b.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41329) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVfv4-0002z5-9I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 13:29:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVfv3-0002Ny-DL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 13:29:50 -0400 In-reply-to: <87o93mwr4b.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [De-CC'ing help-guix again.] Ludo'! Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Ideally, we=E2=80=99d use an actual UUID object (or a string?) here=20 > rather than > this Linux/udev-specific idiom. [=E2=80=A6] > I believe using Guile-Parted we could map it back to a /dev=20 > name. Yah, 's one of the reasons that I haven't sent anything yet (the=20 main one being shame, of course; car/cdr for the win & all that). > Would that work? I'd looked in Guile-parted before but came up dry. To be fair I=20 did little more than grep around for =E2=80=98uid=E2=80=99 and friends. So= you=20 tell me ;-) =E2=80=A6 Hum, wait a minute. Isn't that irrelevant? Doesn't Guix itself=20 do exactly this when mounting file systems? Sigh, silly me, I=20 should be able to re-use that=E2=80=A6 >_< Kind regards, T G-R --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYKAB0WIQT12iAyS4c9C3o4dnINsP+IT1VteQUCXO1v/wAKCRANsP+IT1Vt eQ72AQDWJYnqc4OT9q5zOjjGjga3T8GM7HQ8BnwNXHQklxNatgD/VKFmCMgSHvDo 4Oke3k5qaBnSB4YWsacgUzujDcSVSw8= =5t4L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--