Re: ISO image available for testing!

[D4n1 <d4n1@d4n1.org>]

Thanks Ludo! But there isn't a i686 ISO :( I'll try install on my x60s. But I'll try on may another PC using x86_64 platform.

Thanks,

Daniel Pimentel (d4n1)On Dec 5, 2017 8:47 PM, ludo@gnu.org wrote:
>
> Hi Chris, 
>
> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis: 
>
> > I've attempted to use this to install GuixSD on a Bytemark 
> > VM. Unfortunately I haven't succeeded yet. I managed to get as far as 
> > running guix system init, but when I did, it started downloading the 
> > bootstrap binaries, and then building binutils. 
> > 
> > When I run guix system build, or guix build with the --dry-run options, 
> > it says that it will download, rather than building, but it doesn't. 
>
> It turned out to be issues related to grafts and to what Hydra builds, 
> fixed with these commits: 
>
> 3e442f85f * gnu: ghostscript-with-cups: Turn into a public variable. 
> 91c9b5d01 * packages: 'package-grafts' trims native inputs. 
> ff0e0041f * packages: 'fold-bag-dependencies' honors nativeness in recursive calls. 
> f00b85ff8 * gnu: commencement: Do not graft early bootstrap packages. 
>
> The Binutils issue is fixed by f00b85ff8. 
>
> Commit 91c9b5d01 notably fixes the “expat issue”: coreutils had expat in 
> its dependency graph, via gettext.  Thus, the expat graft was picked up 
> as a candidate graft.  However, expat itself was subject to the glibc 
> graft, and since there was no substitute for this particular expat, we’d 
> have to build it first, just to throw it away later on because coreutils 
> does not refer to it at run time. 
>
> Long story short: we were flagging native inputs as potential sources of 
> grafts even though, by definition, native inputs are not referred to at 
> run time. 
>
> The last commit ensures that Hydra builds the replacement for 
> ‘ghostscript-with-cups’. 
>
> What’s tricky is that one doesn’t notice these issues unless starting 
> from a fresh store. 
>
> I’ve uploaded an updated ISO image, which I used to test substitute 
> availability and grafts.  If you have time in the coming hours, feedback 
> welcome: 
>
>   http://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-install-0.13.0.91c9b5d01.x86_64-linux.iso.xz 
>   http://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-install-0.13.0.91c9b5d01.x86_64-linux.iso.xz.sig 
>
> Ludo’. 
>