bug#59661: [PATCH 0/3] Add e2fsprogs to %base-packages-utils.

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> * gnu/system/install.scm (%installer-disk-utilities): Add e2fsprogs.
>>
>> LGTM!
>>
>> e2fsprogs binaries are indeed missing from $PATH in
>> guix-system-install-1.4.0rc1.*.iso; I’ll cherry-pick it on
>> ‘version-1.4.0’.
>>
>> What I don’t get is that our manual installation tests should have
>> caught this issue because they use ‘mkfs.ext4’ and expect to have it in
>> $PATH.  I’ll take a look…
>
> Got it: Mathieu worked around it in
> 0f66ef9aa99d2043abccbc80d858bdeca57534ac by explicitly adding e2fsprogs
> and the installation system used by the tests:
>
>   commit 0f66ef9aa99d2043abccbc80d858bdeca57534ac
>   Author: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
>   Date:   Fri Sep 30 15:19:36 2022 +0200
>
>       tests: install: Fix iso-image-installer test.
>
>       This is a follow-up of: 45eac6cdf5c8d9d7b0c564b105c790d2d2007799.
>       It fixes the following error:
>
>       + mkfs.ext4 -L my-root /dev/vda2
>       sh: line 12: mkfs.ext4: command not found
>
>       * gnu/tests/install.scm (%test-iso-image-installer): Add e2fsprogs to the
>       appended packages.
>
> We should be able to revert this commit once the installer provides
> e2fsprogs by default.

I applied this series, reverted 0f66ef9aa99d2043abccbc80d858bdeca57534ac
as suggested above, ran:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
make check-system TESTS=iso-image-installer
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

And pushed!

Closing.

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Thanks,
Maxim