Hi Laura,

Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

>  Yesterday I mentioned that I installed GuixSD on bare metal over IRC
> channel, in my retroPC that in December this year will be 13 years old
> :)

happy birthday retroPC! a teenager :-)

[...]

> The example for desktop.scm has the line:
>  (device "my-root") instead of (device (file-system-label "my-root"))
> I also don't know if that is a mistake or if it is on purpose because
> of being newbie :)

good work: it's a mistake as documented here
https://guix.info/manual/en/File-Systems.html#File-Systems

the file to fix is this:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl

because it is included in the documentation here:
(https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/doc/guix.texi#n9863)
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
@lisp
@include os-config-desktop.texi
@end lisp
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
   
built via make as defined here
(https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/doc/local.mk#n107)
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
%D%/os-config-%.texi: gnu/system/examples/%.tmpl
   	$(AM_V_GEN)$(MKDIR_P) "`dirname $@`";	\
   	cp "$<" "$@"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> I wanted to ask you before doing anything because I'd rather read
> other stuff, but if it is OK, then they are two lines, I can change
> them and patch them.

yes please, fix that template

thanks!
Gio

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Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures