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bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 08:58:07 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Tomáš Čech <address@hidden> skribis:
> TL;DR
> I run `guix system init' from Gentoo to separate partition to
> _init_ root filesystem and after reboot to boot into GuixSD.
OK, that’s not what I had understood, so thanks for bearing with me!
;-)
>>But! Beware that GuixSD wants to own /etc. So in practice, when you
>>boot GuixSD, it may override most of the files in there with its own (it
>>might also bork of some of its assumptions do not hold, like if Gentoo
>>left files in /etc that it doesn’t expect to see.) So the next time you
>>boot into Gentoo, Gentoo will basically be somewhat broken.
>>
>>IOW, using ‘guix system init’ on the current root should be thought of
>>as a one-way transition. It’s not documented because it’s brittle and
>>it’s most likely not what you want.
>
> Yes, that would be way to hell. So the better solution can be putting
> /gnu on separate partition and share it among the systems like you can
> do for /home, /boot etc.
Possibly, yes.
> Let me the whole bug rephrase into single simple question:
>
> Shouldn't `grub' be in `%base-packages'?
It could be there; OTOH, we don’t want to encourage users to bypass
‘reconfigure’. WDYT?
Is it really the only thing you were asking for? If yes, I think we
could have been more efficient in our communication. :-)
I just realized that I misread “grub store is not copied” in the title
as “/gnu/store is not copied.” Sorry for the confusion.
Ludo’.
- bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system, tcech, 2015/03/06
- bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/03/08
- bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system, Tomáš Čech, 2015/03/08
- bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/03/09
- bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system, Tomas Cech, 2015/03/09
- bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/03/09
- bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system, Tomáš Čech, 2015/03/09
- bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system, Tomáš Čech, 2015/03/10
- bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/03/10
- bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system, Tomáš Čech, 2015/03/10
- bug#20024: grub store is not copied to target system, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/03/10