Hi Ludo,
I think it's a good interim solution.
On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 13:49:01 +0200
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> + (define root-uuid
> +;; UUID of the root file system, computed in a deterministic fashion.
> +(if (string=? "iso9660" file-system-type)
Ludo',
On 18/07/17 20:59, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Why not throw SIZE into this mix as well?
>
> Because it can be the symbol 'guess or a number, so that makes things
> needlessly complicated IMO.
Of course. Thanks for your patience. I got completely lost in the
gexp/ungexps of expression->deri
Heya,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis:
> On 18/07/17 13:49, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> What about generating a UUID in a deterministic yet somewhat unique
>> fashion along these lines (untested):
>
> Not great, but I can't think of a better way. :-)
Yup.
>> + (define root-uuid
>> +;; UUID of
Ludo',
On 18/07/17 13:49, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> What about generating a UUID in a deterministic yet somewhat unique
> fashion along these lines (untested):
Not great, but I can't think of a better way. :-)
> + (define root-uuid
> +;; UUID of the root file system, computed in a determinis
Hello,
Danny Milosavljevic skribis:
>> The real problem here is that we're using a label as a UUID.
>
> I agree. Unfortunately Guix UUIDs are difficult to use consistently or I
> would have changed it over to begin with.
What about generating a UUID in a deterministic yet somewhat unique
fash
Done with commit 0862b95433cacf91e44248097caa09119fc532a6.
Kind regards,
T G-R
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On 17/07/17 19:17, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:> Hi T G-R,
> Yeah, that was me. I don't understand how an actual operating system
> on a drive is an image. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, dunno, but I think
> an image is something that is made up by light rays on a screen, not
> the real object. In the c
Hi T G-R,
On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:40:56 +0200
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> The installer's now expects exactly one "GuixSD" partition when booting
> — at least on UEFI. If the GRUB finds two, the GRUB will randomly
> choose. In my case, the GRUB chose a frozen system.
Sorry!
> The real proble
Guix,
[I lost most hours of sleep to this. I might ramble more than usual.]
The default label for images was recently changed[1] to "GuixSD".
While I think it's a fine label, that's also a problem: I've been using
it for years for my root partitions. And when one broke last night, I
couldn't use
