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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> skribis:

> Sadly I think its kind of the same problem as the one I described here:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00161.html.
>
> As we are not able to undo what's done by the cow-store service,
> once restarted, the installer can't be used properly anymore.

True, that’s indeed what you described before.

> So I guess the solution to both of these problems would be to force a
> reboot if the installer fails after the cow-store service has been
> started.

Hmm yes, maybe?  Or maybe we can unshare(2) the installer process so it
still sees the original file system layout?  Or, conversely, run the
installation process in a separate name space?

Needs more thought…

Ludo’.