What's the current state of HURD on Guix?

What's the current state of HURD on Guix?

[Omar Radwan]

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There was a HURD port of Guix that was "promised", and it's been like 6
months since the announcement, so I was wondering how far is it right now?

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Re: What's the current state of HURD on Guix?

[Manolis Ragkousis]

Hello Omar

I am the one working on that port. We are getting there, just more
slowly cause I am working on some university projects.

We had some issues with glibc/hurd which refused to build (the
upstream version could not be built, whether the debian could) but
thankfully with solved that, with lot's of help from the Hurd guys.

Currently Ludovic uploaded the glibc/hurd related patches on the
wip-hurd branch. Some small things need to be fixed and then it will
be merged with master. I will send the related patch probably this
week.
Packages already part of guix: gnumach headers, mig, hurd headers.

We are getting there :-)

Thank you for your interest and I hope I answered your question.
Manolis

Re: What's the current state of HURD on Guix?

[Omar Radwan]

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Will it be usable by Guix stable?
On Sep 10, 2014 10:37 PM, "Manolis Ragkousis" <manolis837@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Omar
>
> I am the one working on that port. We are getting there, just more
> slowly cause I am working on some university projects.
>
> We had some issues with glibc/hurd which refused to build (the
> upstream version could not be built, whether the debian could) but
> thankfully with solved that, with lot's of help from the Hurd guys.
>
> Currently Ludovic uploaded the glibc/hurd related patches on the
> wip-hurd branch. Some small things need to be fixed and then it will
> be merged with master. I will send the related patch probably this
> week.
> Packages already part of guix: gnumach headers, mig, hurd headers.
>
> We are getting there :-)
>
> Thank you for your interest and I hope I answered your question.
> Manolis
>

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Re: What's the current state of HURD on Guix?

[Manolis Ragkousis]

Glibc/hurd will be usable, first, for packaging and building the rest
of the components needed for a Hurd system and second for actually
start using it on such a system.  So unless it introduces any problems
that break guix, I don't see a reason not having it on stable.

Manolis

Re: What's the current state of HURD on Guix?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com> skribis:

> Will it be usable by Guix stable?

Eventually, yes.

But as you can see, this is work in progress, and there are still lots
to be done.  So it may be more than 6 months or a year before there’s a
Guix-based GNU/Hurd you can boot into.

However, the good news is: you can help!  :-)  Help is very much welcome
in this area, either on the packaging/Guix side, or on the Hurd and libc
side, or in Guix’s stand-alone operating system support.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: What's the current state of HURD on Guix?

[Omar Radwan]

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>However, the good news is: you can >help!  :-)  Help is very much welcome
>in this area, either on the packaging/>Guix side, or on the Hurd and libc
>side, or in Guix’s stand-alone >operating system support.

I would very much love to help with anything. Except I'm not much of a
programmer at all.
On Sep 11, 2014 7:19 AM, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > Will it be usable by Guix stable?
>
> Eventually, yes.
>
> But as you can see, this is work in progress, and there are still lots
> to be done.  So it may be more than 6 months or a year before there’s a
> Guix-based GNU/Hurd you can boot into.
>
> However, the good news is: you can help!  :-)  Help is very much welcome
> in this area, either on the packaging/Guix side, or on the Hurd and libc
> side, or in Guix’s stand-alone operating system support.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>

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