Re: Merging ‘wip-newt-installer’ in master?

[John Soo]

Hi all!

I was working on adding more configuration options to the kmscon service. Do 
you think the service can take advantage of the config file, too?

Thanks!

John

> On Jan 16, 2019, at 10:25 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi again!
> 
> I pushed a few commits to ‘wip-newt-installer’.
> 
> I was able to test it with (roughly):
> 
>  guix system disk-image --file-system-type=iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm
>  qemu-img create -f qcow2  /tmp/t.img 2100M
>  qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -cdrom /gnu/store/…-image.iso \
>    -hda /tmp/t.img
> 
> The config file was properly generated (hurray!).  The actual
> installation eventually failed because substitutes are taken from
> hydra.gnu.org, and somehow at one point it would try to download
> linux-libre, which would fail (quite surprisingly: I’d expected the
> download fallback to work, dunno what happened.)
> 
> Anyway, can we rebase the branch on ‘master’?
> 
> It seems to me that it’s in a good shape.  The installer is really
> pleasant to use!
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>