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Subject: Re: Come back and graphical installer
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Hello,

> Now, is the full rebuild caused by the installation of the
> i18n/SUPPORTED file in the glibc package?

Yes.

>
> If the answer is yes, what about creating a separate package (or simply
> a =E2=80=98computed-file=E2=80=99) that would contain nothing but that fi=
le?  That would
> allow us to avoid the full rebuild this time, and thus we could push the
> new interface out sooner.  (Also, we wouldn=E2=80=99t have to connect to =
Google
> Drive.  :-))
>
> WDYT?

Done, I re-created wip-newt-installer without the glibc patch
dependency, it can now be built much faster :)

For people not used to create disk-images, the commands I use are:

./pre-inst-env guix system disk-image gnu/system/install.scm
-> /gnu/store/xxx-disk-image

sudo cp /gnu/store/xxx-disk-image /tmp/iso
sudo chmod o+rw /tmp/iso
qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -smp 1   -net user -net nic,model=3Dvirtio -boot=
 menu=3Don   -drive file=3D/tmp/iso -vga std

> Minor issue: I think =E2=80=98configure.ac=E2=80=99 should not abort when=
 Newt is
> missing; in general, I think we=E2=80=99ll want to build Guix without New=
t and
> without building the installer.  Likewise, in (guix self), we should
> create a special =E2=80=9Cnode=E2=80=9D containing (gnu installer =E2=80=
=A6) and arrange so that
> it=E2=80=99s not compiled; it makes no sense to have it compiled here, ex=
cept
> for testing.
>
> WDYT?

Yes, it makes sense, I'll remove this dependency.

Thanks for your fast answer :),

Mathieu