From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Goebel Subject: Re: Please put the system-configuration into the image Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 11:20:50 +0200 Message-ID: <9d3029d4-8069-4c95-702e-6194f7fa8cd2@crazy-compilers.com> References: <2af008a3-ba55-1894-4cad-3afee197b225@crazy-compilers.com> <20170905180529.yk2kphegofhu7rft@abyayala> <1ee6f79c-a1b2-fe38-7cb2-e3ca4220985f@crazy-compilers.com> <87h8wezz9n.fsf@gnu.org> 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]:57259) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpszc-0001I6-K7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 05:21:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dpszX-0007ip-IF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Sep 2017 05:21:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h8wezz9n.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US 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: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= Cc: guix-devel Am 07.09.2017 um 10:30 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s: > However, I don=E2=80=99t quite understand the use case: you=E2=80=99d l= ike to hack on > the OS declaration of the image from within the image? That sounds > inconvenient no? My use case is this: I plan to use GuixSD for one of my systems. Prior to installing GuixSD on real hardware, I want to test it and see how a GuixSD system would work and feel. And taking the perspective of a non-developer, I don't have any GuixSD yet. I may be using Fedora or Debian and want to try out GuixSD. For this I use the QEMU image My understanding is that I would have a system-definition describing this very system and if I want to change the system-configuration, I change the system-definition. On e.g. Debian I would apt-get software and change config-files, while on GuixSD I would change the system-definition and reconfigure. And I imagine to have the corresponding system-definition *in* the system, since in this use-case there is no separate "main GuixSD installation". Like when using ansible, puppet, etc. for managing *this* system, I need the system definition *for* this system *in* this system. I hope this is clearer now. --=20 Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |