-*- mode: org; coding: utf-8; -*- #+TITLE: What's left to do? #+STARTUP: content hidestars Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. * Add `guix publish' to publish the store using Guile's web server Generate narinfos and nars on the fly, upon HTTP GET requests. Ideally, extend .nix-cache-info to include the server's public key, and also reply to requests for .narinfo.sig. Optionally, use Guile-Avahi to publish the service. * MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]] Would be neat if binaries could be pushed to and pulled from the GNUnet DHT or rather libswift (since DHTs aren’t suited for large payloads). Guix users would sign their binaries, and define which binaries they trust. Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does. * user interface ** add guile-ncurses interface * extend ** add ‘recommends’ field For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other. ‘guix package -i’ could ask interactively (?), or allow users to follow all or none of the recommendations. ** add a ‘user-environment-hook’ This should specify builder code to be run when building a user environment with ‘guix-package’. For instance, Texinfo’s hook would create a new ‘dir’. ** extend ‘propagated-build-inputs’ with support for multiple outputs #+BEGIN_SRC scheme (outputs '("out" "include")) (propagated-build-inputs `(((("i1" ,p1 "o1") ("i2" ,p2)) => "include") ("i3" ,p3))) #+END_SRC * synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]] Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be dumped from the FSD: http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=GNU/Export&action=purge . We could periodically synchronize with that. * add a guildhall build system The Guildhall is Guile’s packaging system. It should be easy to add a ‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall recipes. * union Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: honor per-package priorities, etc. * add GUIX_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE_TESTS Tests that need to download stuff or otherwise take a long time would only be run when that is defined. * add "guix challenge" Would download a substitute, and compare its contents against a (hopefully locally-built) copy. * guix build utils ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name ** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath that uses [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]] ** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]]. * distro ** port to GNU/Hurd, aka. ‘i686-gnu’ Problems include that current glibc releases do not build on GNU/Hurd. In addition, there haven’t been stable releases of GNU Mach, MiG, and Hurd, which would be a pre-condition. aller/kernel.scm, gnu/installer/newt/kernel.scm: New files. * gnu/local.mk (INSTALLER_MODULES): Add them. * gnu/installer.scm (installer-steps): Use them to select kernel if applicable. * gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (run-label-page): Default to "msdos" when instaling the Hurd. (run-fs-type-page): Add ext2 for the hurd. (run-partitioning-page-partition): Remove `entire-encrypted' option when installing the Hurd. * gnu/installer/services.scm (system-services->configuration): Cater for the Hurd with %base-services/hurd, and with %base-packages/hurd that must always be set. (%system-services): Change to procedure. When installing the the Hurd, do not recommend `ntp-service-type' and USE `openssh-sans-x' package for `openssh-service-type'. (system-service-none): New variable. * gnu/installer/newt/services.scm (run-network-management-page): Include it when installing the Hurd. (run-desktop-environments-cbt-page): When installing the Hurd, recommend to not select any desktop enviroment. Update users. * gnu/installer/parted.scm (efi-installation?): Return #f when installing for the Hurd. (create-ext2-file-system): New procedure. (user-fs-type-name, user-fs-type->mount-type, partition-filesystem-user-type, format-user-partitions): Support `ext2'. (<user-partition> partition->user-partition): Use `ext2' when installing the Hurd. (auto-partition!): Likewise. No swap partition when installing the Hurd. * gnu/installer/final.scm (install-system): Cater for cross installation of the Hurd. (bootloader-configuration): Use `grub-minimal-bootloader' when installing the Hurd. (user-partition-missing-modules): Cater for empty user-partitions. (initrd-configuration, user-partitions->configuration): Cater for the Hurd. * gnu/installer/steps.scm (format-configuration, configuration->file): Cater for the Hurd. * gnu/system/hurd.scm (%desktop-services/hurd): New variable. * gnu/installer/tests.scm (choose-kernel): New procedure. * gnu/tests/install.scm (gui-test-program): Use it. Change-Id: Ifafb27b8a2f933944c77223a27ec151757237e36 Janneke Nieuwenhuizen 2022-12-18installer: final: Delete SQLite WAL and shm files upon completion....Ludovic Courtès 2022-12-18installer: final: Stop guix-daemon before accessing store database....Ludovic Courtès 2022-10-20installer: Run the "guix system init" command in a PTY....Mathieu Othacehe