Re: Providing a Guix System images catalog.

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Mathieu Othacehe writes:

Hello Mathieu,

> To build a Guix System image, one needs to pick an operating system file
> and call "guix system disk-image my-os.scm" to get an image.
>
> While this works fine on desktop, this is more tricky for the embedded
> devices. Which operating system to select in "examples" folder? What's
> the difference between --system and --target, which one should I use?
>
> This attached, wip patch, allows to run (on wip-hurd-vm branch):
>
> guix system image hurd-disk-image
>
> instead of:
>
> guix system disk-image --target=i586-pc-gnu  
> gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl

That's pretty nice!  I wonder about how this composes; if I'd want to
add say a guix-daemon service to the bare-hurd, how would I do that?

What I also like about "gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.tmpl" is that it's
easy to imagine where to make such a change.

Greetings,
Janneke

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