From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Cc: 42123@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#42123] [PATCH] linux-libre: Enable module compression.
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2020 14:20:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873664ltqt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfjx6nb9.fsf@gnu.org> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:48:58 +0200")
Hello!
Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> skribis:
> Adding (guix zlib) as a dependency of (gnu build linux-modules) also
> drags (guix config). That's an issue because there are a lot of
> derivations including (gnu build linux-modules) without deleting/mocking
> (guix config).
>
> That's for instance the case with "expression->initrd", and it explains
> why the installation test is trying to rebuild the initrd.
>
> I see two solutions here:
>
> * Delete/mock (guix config) in every derivation including (gnu build
> linux-modules) or any other build module that includes it. Not ideal
> because there are quite numerous.
>
> * Do not use (guix zlib) but a raw "gzip -cd" pipe in (gnu build
> linux-modules). It works but it way slower.
I don’t have other ideas, but both solutions sound good to me. Using
(guix zlib) is slightly more “elegant” IMO, but no big deal. I don’t
expect any significant difference from the use of in-process
decompression, unless we really have to go and decompress many modules
in a row.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-06 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-29 14:24 [bug#42123] [PATCH] linux-libre: Enable module compression Mathieu Othacehe
2020-06-30 7:31 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-07-02 10:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-06 8:48 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-07-06 12:20 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-07-06 14:23 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-07-06 20:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-07 7:32 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-07-09 7:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-27 16:24 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-07-28 22:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-08-06 13:44 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-08-23 16:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-08-24 11:38 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-08-24 14:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-08-25 10:30 ` bug#42123: " Mathieu Othacehe
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