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[bug#36738] [PATCH] guix deploy: Support '--no-grafts' and '--system'


From: Christopher Lemmer Webber
Subject: [bug#36738] [PATCH] guix deploy: Support '--no-grafts' and '--system'
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:44:16 -0400
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Jakob L. Kreuze writes:

> Hello Wenwu,
> address@hidden (宋文武) writes:
>
>> Hello, this patch handle the '--no-grafts' command line option:
>> ...
>> And '--system', so I can deploy a "i686-linux" from my "x86_64-linux":
>
> These patches look good to me, thank you!
>
> Ludo, Dave, Chris, any additional comments?
>
>> Or better we can add a 'system' field to the <machine> record, so we
>> can deploy a list of machines with different 'system'. Currently a
>> <machine> has 'system' as a field for the <operating-system>, so where
>> to put this machine/arch 'system'...
>
> Great idea. I think that continuing to call the machine's
> <operating-system> 'system' would be confusing if we introduced the
> notion of a target architecture, because we use "system" to refer to the
> target architecture in the rest of Guix's command-line tools. Maybe it
> would make sense to rename the <operating-system> field to 'os' or
> something similar, and use the 'system' field to specify the target
> architecture instead? Any thoughs?

I'm fine with a rename to "os"





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