From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Encrypted root partition Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 13:07:52 +0100 Message-ID: <87bmv3z207.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87vavd3k1t.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8cp4bqk.fsf@gmail.com> <877f7swllv.fsf@gnu.org> <87pojkitaf.fsf@gmail.com> <87eg0083vx.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3y7vfhn.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cUBVY-0000f4-I0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 07:08:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cUBVU-0001EL-9U for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2017 07:08:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87y3y7vfhn.fsf@gmail.com> (Chris Marusich's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:30:12 -0800") 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: Chris Marusich Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Chris Marusich skribis: > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > >> Chris Marusich skribis: >> >>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: >>> >>>> Chris Marusich skribis: >>>> >>>>> Is anyone actively working on documenting the new encrypted root stuf= f? >>>>> If not, I'm happy to try my hand at it. I'm interested in trying to = set >>>>> it up on my laptop, anyway. >>>> >>>> I=E2=80=99ve added documentation in 2b5fea5ba3b07999cf198e1132ffcacbfc= b7ed72. >>>> >>>> Please send a patch if you think of improvements that can be made. >>> >>> I'm happy to report that I was successful in setting up an encrypted >>> root file system on my Libreboot laptop. I have to enter the passphrase >>> twice, but that's no different from the normal case (without Libreboot). >>> It took me multiple days to get it working, though, because each time I >>> tried to run "guix system init", it took over 8 hours to finish! >> >> Woow, was it building stuff, or was downloading super slow? Was is a >> desktop-style install? > > It was a desktop-style install. Many packages were built from source, > even though some were downloaded via substitutes, also. It was > particularly painful because I didn't know how to save and re-use the > result of the first build attempt, so I'm sure I wasted a lot of time > starting over and rebuilding the same packages a second time. There=E2=80=99s currently no option to resume an install unfortunately. I=E2=80=99m surprised though. 0.12.0 binaries are still available on hydra.gnu.org AFAIK, or at least we (i.e., Mark) took the appropriate measures to protect them from garbage collection. I guess I should try a desktop install and see which substitutes are missing. Ludo=E2=80=99.