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From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Manolis Ragkousis <manolis837@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, bug-hurd@gnu.org,
	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GSoC ideas
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:36:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2mbqhcr.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56BC7496.8020409@gmail.com>

Manolis Ragkousis writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> As I am still a student I would like to suggest continuing the project
> of porting Guix to GNU/Hurd in this GSoC as well, with the objective of
> having a working GuixSD/Hurd by the end of the summer.
>
> After discussions with Justus and Samuel in FOSDEM about the Guix-Hurd
> port I am starting to have a good idea on what is left to be done and
> the solution needed for the problems we have.
>
> So here's a preliminary timeline as well as a list of things to be done:
>
> Before May:
>
> 1) Merge wip-hurd branch.
> 2) Make the daemon handle chroot builds on the Hurd.
> Note here that on the Hurd, one does not need to be root to achieve
> isolation, so I should change the daemon to use this capability.
> 3) Instead of using the Linux syscall guile wrappers, I should modify
> Guix to use a more Hurdish way (i.e settrans) so later on we can handle
> translators and bootstrap a GNU/Hurd system.
> 4) Better understand how GuixSD startup works.
>
> May-August:
> 1) Implement the mechanisms for creating and mounting the initial
> filesystem and starting the system.
> 2) Implement the mechanisms to handle the Hurd servers in /hurd. I
> remember I was told that there may be an issue when the servers are not
> actually there (i.e all the binaries are in the /gnu/store). Would love
> if somebody could tell us more on that.
> 3) Isolate Linuxisms around Guix.
> 4) David Michael has made an excelent work on getting Shepherd working
> with Hurd so I don't think we will have any serious issues with the init
> daemon.
> 5) Others that will come up.. In the following weeks I will work closely
> with the Hurd guys to make sure we get a better understanding of
> everything and a detailed timeline.
>
> End of GSoC:
> Have a working GuixSD with Hurd as the kernel.
>
> Currently Justus (and others soon :-)) are testing Guix on their
> machines. We have some issues but we are working on them.
>
> Please feel free to add/correct anything from the above. Your
> comment/opinion may help to get things up and running faster :-)
>
> Finally I want to say that I will continue my work on this, regardless
> of GSoC or not, but I would like it if it was. :-)
>
> Thank you,
> Manolis

I can't speak for everyone else but it feels like this would be a great
project for you to contininue.  The guile-emacs project ran for a few
years, so I don't see any blocker on continuing, right?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-11 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-06 11:38 GSoC ideas Pjotr Prins
2016-02-06 12:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-06 18:54   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-07 10:16     ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-09 20:52       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-25 20:32       ` myglc2
2016-02-08 10:45     ` Tomáš Čech
2016-02-08 11:37       ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-08 17:24       ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-08 18:45         ` Thompson, David
2016-02-08 19:47           ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-08 20:43             ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-09 10:36               ` Installing Guix on foreign distros Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-10  8:53                 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-02-10  9:42                   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-10 12:44                   ` Jookia
2016-02-11  5:44                     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-11 10:54                       ` Bootstrapping Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-23 23:00               ` GSoC ideas Diane Trout
2016-02-23 23:52                 ` Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas) Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-24  0:02                   ` Leo Famulari
2016-02-24  9:03                     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-24  9:16                       ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-24  9:36                         ` Jookia
2016-02-25 18:15                           ` Bootstrap binaries Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-25 20:26                             ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-26 23:19                               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-28 10:51                                 ` Jookia
2016-02-28 15:08                                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-28 15:10                                     ` Jookia
2016-02-29  5:22                                       ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-29 10:01                                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-24  0:32                   ` Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas) Diane Trout
2016-02-24  7:04                     ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-24 17:20                       ` Thompson, David
2016-02-24 19:36                         ` Diane Trout
2016-02-25 10:30                           ` Efraim Flashner
2016-02-26  1:27                             ` Diane Trout
2016-02-24 19:14                 ` GSoC ideas Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-02-24 21:24                   ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-02-24 21:56                     ` Diane Trout
2016-02-25 18:10                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-26  1:28                   ` Diane Trout
2016-03-25 20:52         ` myglc2
2016-02-09 20:49     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-09 22:17       ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-10  6:12         ` Pjotr Prins
2016-02-11  2:11           ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-11 10:01             ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-11 17:59               ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-21 21:07                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 19:07       ` myglc2
2016-02-11 11:46   ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-02-11 17:32     ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-12 11:48       ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2016-02-11 17:36     ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-02-28 22:12     ` Samuel Thibault
2016-02-28 23:33       ` Richard Braun
2016-03-02 10:09     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-02 10:12       ` Samuel Thibault
2016-03-02 21:31         ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-02 22:06           ` Samuel Thibault
2016-03-21 12:09             ` [GSoC] Porting GuixSD to GNU Hurd draft Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-22  0:49               ` Samuel Thibault
2016-03-23 13:40               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 16:55                 ` Justus Winter
2016-03-24 11:18                   ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-24 11:38                     ` Justus Winter
2016-03-24 12:36                       ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-24 12:49                         ` Justus Winter
2016-03-24 13:22                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-24 13:55                     ` Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-24 14:30                       ` Justus Winter
2016-03-04 15:09           ` GSoC ideas Manolis Ragkousis
2016-03-05 22:02             ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-06 23:53 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-02-07  5:51   ` Pjotr Prins

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