From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: Drive identifiers Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:39:33 +0100 Message-ID: <20180118103933.1121bca7@scratchpost.org> References: <87mv1c4kp7.fsf@gnu.org> <86y3kvzypj.fsf@gmail.com> <20180118102914.6cb68394@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46068) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ec6fd-0000Sd-GF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:39:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ec6fa-0003ik-S1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:39:41 -0500 Received: from dd26836.kasserver.com ([85.13.145.193]:38756) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ec6fa-0003ht-KD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:39:38 -0500 Received: from localhost (178.113.159.77.wireless.dyn.drei.com [178.113.159.77]) by dd26836.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 00D24336044F for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:39:35 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20180118102914.6cb68394@scratchpost.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Guix-devel Modification would be: guix/scripts/system.scm install-bootloader should resolve target, like if target doesn't startwith "/dev/" compare target with ID_SERIAL using udevinfo, return device name else as before gnu/system/vm.scm qemu-image should resolve target likewise before calling initialize-hard-disk. I wonder how qemu drive serial numbers work. https://serverfault.com/questions/318755/qemu-can-i-set-the-serial-number-on-a-virtual-scsi-device