2017-12-26 20:09 GMT+01:00 Leo Famulari <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 08:17:54AM +0100, Catonano wrote:
> > This manual page
> >
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Substitute-Server-
> Authorization.html#Substitute-Server-Authorization
> >
> > says that I should loo for substitutes authorization keys in
> >
> > prefix/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub
> >
> > I'm on a laptop with GuixSD on it and I don't understand: which is my
> > prefix ?
>
> Sorry, those instructions are confusing and should be improved. On
> GuixSD, hydra.gnu.org is authorized by default; you don't need to
> authorize that server again.
>
> For reference, on GuixSD the default signing keys for binary substitutes
> can be found at '/run/current-system/profile/share/guix'.
>
> On a foreign distro, if you did the binary installation, they are at
> '~root/.guix/profile/share/guix'.
>

thanks


>
> > I'm asking this because Efraim invited me to use his substitute server on
> > the irc channel and I don't know how to set it up
>
> If Efraim is just providing a substitute mirror of hydra.gnu.org, you
> don't need to do anything. If he is building his own binary substitutes,
> you'll need the signing key for his server, which wil be provided by
> him. I've copied him on this message.
>

Ah. Thanks


>
> > I want to use his substitute server because I'd like to build the
> > installation image from the branch with the graphical installer, in order
> > to test it in a visrtual machine
> >
> > But when I tried to build the installation image I got this (tl;dr
> > linux-libre-4.13.2 missing)
>
> Unfortunately, the linux-libre project does not maintain an archive of
> their releases, as you saw. Do you need to use that particular version
> of the kernel, or can you use something more current, which might still
> be available upstream or cached on our servers?
>


I just run this line
~$ ./pre-inst-env guix system disk-image gnu/system/install.scm

as by the instrctions to build an installation image from that branch

and I ended up with the error I reported here

If an installation image with the graphical installer can be built with a
more current kernel, I'm all for it
Only, please, tell me how

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