From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= Subject: Re: Testing the installer Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:21:27 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87o8v8qq59.fsf@inria.fr> <87tv4yqxd9.fsf@gmail.com> <87h80nb003.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2tyfr24.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 ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58847) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iuaYR-0003kO-A9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 06:21:44 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iuaYQ-0002aD-B6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 06:21:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87y2tyfr24.fsf@gmail.com> 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mathieu Othacehe Cc: guix-devel Hello Mathieu, Mathieu Othacehe ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2020. = jan. 23., Cs, 10:42): > > > Hey! > > > I=E2=80=99ve pushed =E2=80=98wip-installer-test=E2=80=99, which impleme= nts said protocol. See > > screenshot below! :-) > > Woow, that's impressive :) > > I just gave you access to Guile-newt repository so that you can > integrate your changes. I will create a new release once its done. > > In the future, I would have liked to keep open the possibility of having > one installer with multiple graphical backends (newt, gtk, cli). That > would mean that we would need to factorize the protocol part in the > backend agnostic part of the installer. > > Anyway, for now it would be completely over-engineered, as we don't know > yet if a new backend will come one day. This is a bit off topic, but I am about to create an automatic installer, that is a candidate for a new backend. It currently works by providing a configurat= ion record, and then executes a few things from the installer. (It does a lookup for a candidate installation target disk, autopartitions = it, then injects the bootloader and file-system fields into an operating-system template, and finally does a system installation.) I will have a look at the new protocol soon, to see if this project can benefit from that. > > Please let me know if you want help on some point but, I think that I'll > try to tackle the "installer cannot restart issue". > > Thanks, > > Mathieu > Best regards, g_bor --=20 OpenPGP Key Fingerprint: 7988:3B9F:7D6A:4DBF:3719:0367:2506:A96C:CF63:0B21