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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Shipping more installer images?
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 23:25:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn5lg6n2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201013150721.GB1145@E5400> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Tue,  13 Oct 2020 18:07:21 +0300")

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 01:47:25PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> skribis:
>> 
>> >> I'm actually not really sure how one would use the installer on one of
>> >> the boards. I think the bare-bones disk-images would be best; just
>> >> download it and flash it onto the board or an SD card and edit
>> >> /etc/config.scm to add your user and services. Or to boot up into the
>> >> installer and overwrite itself.
>> >
>> > The CI is already building substitutes for two images
>> > (hurd-barebones-qcow2-image and pine64-barebones-raw-image). We could
>> > maybe release 1.2 version of those images.
>> 
>> Keep in mind that images use space at ftp.gnu.org and also take time to
>> build (having CI up-to-date helps with that, but it doesn’t not
>> eliminate build times due to the ‘update-guix-package’ dance that takes
>> place during “make release”.)
>
> We could also list out the commands for building the image and have
> "community images" built and tested by people who actually have the
> boards.

Yeah, though “community images” could rhyme with
“we’re-not-sure-what’s-inside images”.  :-)

>> Likewise, if we ship more images, we should update the “System
>> Installation” section accordingly and be clear about what users can
>> expect.
>
> My slightly more featureful pine64plus image I built for myself came out
> to 1.5 GiB and 291 MiB with bzip2. I don't know how much space the other
> images or x86* images are.

Cool.

> We could also build and test them on a different schedule and upload
> them at a later date as they're shown to be working.

Hmm, tricky, security-wise.

Anyway, let’s work on that for 1.3!

Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-13 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-29 12:16 Release v1.2 timetable zimoun
2020-09-29 15:07 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-10-07 14:51   ` zimoun
2020-10-07 15:39     ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-10-07 15:56       ` Weird things found while fixing basic Guix packages Danny Milosavljevic
2020-10-12 11:53         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-07 16:29       ` Release v1.2 timetable Danny Milosavljevic
2020-10-12 11:52       ` 32-bit builds on 64-bit hardware/VMs Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-12 12:06         ` Andreas Enge
2020-10-13 13:54           ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-07 16:31     ` Release v1.2 timetable Danny Milosavljevic
2020-10-05 10:18 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-10-05 11:16   ` Julien Lepiller
2020-10-05 12:38     ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-10-05 13:50       ` Julien Lepiller
2020-10-05 13:48     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-05 21:17       ` zimoun
2020-10-06  6:57         ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-10-07 14:36           ` zimoun
2020-10-21  9:14             ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-22  7:55               ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-10-23  8:39               ` zimoun
2020-10-26 22:52                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-06  6:59         ` Efraim Flashner
2020-10-06  7:05           ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-10-06  7:26             ` Efraim Flashner
2020-10-06  7:57               ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-10-07 14:39                 ` zimoun
2020-10-09 18:25                 ` Andreas Enge
2020-10-09 18:37                   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-10-12 11:47                 ` Shipping more installer images? Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-12 13:48                   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-10-13 13:51                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-13 14:19                       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-10-13 21:23                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-13 16:29                       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-10-13 15:07                   ` Efraim Flashner
2020-10-13 21:25                     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-10-19 15:17 ` Update on the timeline for the release v1.2 zimoun
2020-10-19 18:26   ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-10-19 19:27     ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-10-19 21:57       ` Julien Lepiller
2020-10-21 12:44   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-21 14:14     ` zimoun
2020-10-21 15:57       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-21 18:03         ` Julien Lepiller
2020-10-21 21:27           ` Marius Bakke
2020-10-21 22:16           ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-21 22:23             ` zimoun
2020-10-21 22:36             ` zimoun
2020-10-26 22:44               ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-31  2:41         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-10-31 22:28           ` Branching for v1.2? Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-01  2:21             ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-11-02 16:56               ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-02  8:43             ` zimoun
2020-11-02 13:20               ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-11-02 15:00                 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-11-02 17:56                   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-11-03 12:51                     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-11-03 13:46                       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)

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