From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Testing the installer Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:23:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87h80lfbt7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o8v8qq59.fsf@inria.fr> <87tv4yqxd9.fsf@gmail.com> <87h80nb003.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2tyfr24.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iuvBA-0003Ye-SZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2020 04:23:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: (=?utf-8?Q?=22G=C3=A1bor?= Boskovits"'s message of "Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:21:27 +0100") 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?utf-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor?= Boskovits Cc: guix-devel Hi G=C3=A1bor, G=C3=A1bor Boskovits skribis: > This is a bit off topic, but I am about to create an automatic > installer, that is > a candidate for a new backend. It currently works by providing a configur= ation > record, and then executes a few things from the installer. > > (It does a lookup for a candidate installation target disk, autopartition= s it, > then injects the bootloader and file-system fields into an operating-syst= em > template, and finally does a system installation.) > > I will have a look at the new protocol soon, to see if this project > can benefit from that. Yes, there may be things to share here. Alternately, the automated installer could directly poke at the installer=E2=80=99s APIs instead of be= ing an external program. Something to discuss at the Guix Days! :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.