Re: Gnome Boxes

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

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Hi!

When submitting the MR to libosinfo, there were concerns that the .xz extension would cause problems with other software, so we left it out.

I think we should provide a .iso download directly, if we want gnome boxes to propose the guix system.

Le 9 février 2021 08:58:35 GMT-05:00, Adriano Peluso <randomlooser@riseup.net> a écrit :
>Gnome Boxes is GUI app that manages virtual machines and OSs images to
>run in them 
>
>It's a sort of Qemu for the rest of us.
>
>It offers a menu with images of OSs to download and run
>
>There are several versions of NixOs, among many others
>
>There's a recipe for Guix System by Julien Lepiller, it's here
>https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db/-/blob/master/data/os/guix.gnu.org/guix-1.1.xml.in
>
>In their irc channel, the Boxes people infornmed me that they filter
>out images that have no download url, as it seems to be the case with
>this recipe
>
>In fact, as you can see, the download url is commented out (on line 15)
>
>Why is this ?
>
>Was there a specific problem with the download url ?
>
>It's be nice if I could pach this and have Guix System in the Gnome
>Boxes menu
>
>Thanks

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