Re: Installer: GUIX_IMAGE as /dev/sda on some hardware?

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

[De-CC'ing help-guix again.]

Ludo'!

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Ideally, we’d use an actual UUID object (or a string?) here 
> rather than
> this Linux/udev-specific idiom.  […]
> I believe using Guile-Parted we could map it back to a /dev 
> name.

Yah, 's one of the reasons that I haven't sent anything yet (the 
main one being shame, of course; car/cdr for the win & all that).

> Would that work?

I'd looked in Guile-parted before but came up dry.  To be fair I 
did little more than grep around for ‘uid’ and friends.  So you 
tell me ;-)

…

Hum, wait a minute.  Isn't that irrelevant?  Doesn't Guix itself 
do exactly this when mounting file systems?  Sigh, silly me, I 
should be able to re-use that…  >_<

Kind regards,

T G-R

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