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Resent-From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: guix-patches@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:35:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 42634 X-GNU-PR-Package: guix-patches X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch To: Mathieu Othacehe Cc: Mathieu Othacehe , 42634@debbugs.gnu.org Received: via spool by 42634-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B42634.160096167131004 (code B ref 42634); Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:35:01 +0000 Received: (at 42634) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Sep 2020 15:34:31 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41353 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kLTGR-000840-Mc for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:34:31 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44078) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kLTGQ-00083o-Q5 for 42634@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:34:31 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kLTGL-0006dW-HU; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:34:25 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=57560 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kLTGH-0008Hx-TM; Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:34:23 -0400 From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= References: <20200731144825.703211-1-othacehe@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:34:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20200731144825.703211-1-othacehe@gnu.org> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:48:25 +0200") Message-ID: <87h7rn6ver.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) X-BeenThere: guix-patches@gnu.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" X-Scanner: scn0 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-patches-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-patches-bounces@gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -1.51 X-TUID: oNN+GOOmruqb Hi! Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > I think this is close to what Ludo suggested and it addresses janneke con= cerns > about composability. > > The idea is to introduce the concept of "image-type". An image type is a > converter from an record to an record. > > I have created in this serie 4 new image type records: > - raw > - iso9660 > - uncompressed-iso9660 > - hurd-raw > > I also adapted the "guix system" command by removing the "file-system-typ= e" > argument and replaced it by the "image-type" argument. > > The default is still to create a raw disk-image, but one can now call: > > guix system disk-image -t iso9660 my-config.scm > guix system disk-image -t uncompressed-iso9660 my-config.scm > guix system disk-image -t hurd-raw my-config.scm Neat! > and so on. Maybe we should also rename "disk-image" command to "image" th= at > would be somehow more accurate. Yes. We can do that separately, but I agree that it would make sense. I wonder if =E2=80=98docker-image=E2=80=99 could also fit in there. Apologies for taking so long to reply! Ludo=E2=80=99.