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Subject: [bug#37868] [PATCH] guix: Allow multiple packages to provide Linux
 modules in the system profile.
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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>, 37868@debbugs.gnu.org

Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> any comments about this patch?

I commented on an earlier version of this patch at
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg00514.html>.

Let me know what you think!

> I don't want to just push this to guix master without any discussion sinc=
e it
> establishes an interface that has to keep working for a long time.

I agree, thanks for the heads-up.

> Open questions:
>
> * Why doesn't operating-system-profile successfully add linux-libre ?

What do you mean?  Currently =E2=80=98linux-libre=E2=80=99 is not added to =
the global
profile, and I think it=E2=80=99s nicer this way (we=E2=80=99re not clobber=
ing the
profile).

> * Do we want to be able to add kernel modules in this fashion without req=
uiring
> a reboot?  If so, that would make the situation a lot more complicated an=
d I
> don't see a safe way to do that.

If we arrange for those kernel modules to show up in
/run/current-system/kernel as I suggested in the message linked above,
it should work (assuming the running kernel and the target kernel are
the same, of course).

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.