From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Branson Subject: Re: create a symlink Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:23:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20180419082632.133ccb70@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49508) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9Gzx-0005aG-Ht for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:21:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9Gzs-0000wT-K3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:21:45 -0400 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:40663) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9Gzs-0000w5-Di for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:21:40 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id D51DE21E71 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:21:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dobby (unknown [72.12.220.132]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7656BE442A for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:21:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20180419082632.133ccb70@scratchpost.org> (Danny Milosavljevic's message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:26:32 +0200") 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@gnu.org I guess I'm a little behind. What's this install-hurd procedure? Is this getting the hurd running in a vm on a guixSD system? Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi Rene, > >> But Guix waits for a string, is it possible to use a package to do the symlink? > > Not directly - but you can "convert" a package to a string by putting in guix/scripts/system.scm : > > (install-hurd #$hurd) > > or so (where "install-hurd" is your procedure in gnu/build/install.scm).