And add a new '--volatile' option to have it volatile otherwise.
* guix/scripts/system.scm (%options)[volatile-root?]: New boolean option.
(%default-options): Set its default value to #f.
(show-help): Add help doc.
* guix/scripts/system.scm (perform-action): Propagate option...
(system-derivation-for-action): ...here. Use it to set the volatile-root?
field of the image object passed to SYSTEM-IMAGE.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Document it.
Fixes <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/44353>.
Every bootloader should try their best to install themselves using only the
MOUNT-POINT and otherwise do nothing. This requirement comes from the
necessity to call INSTALL-GRUB when installing the (non-EFI) GRUB bootloader,
which needs to populate the root file system with extra modules that cannot be
fit in the core.img file, limited in size to 491520 bytes (by the i386-pc
format required for legacy BIOS compatibility).
As introducing bootloader knowledge at the level of the image code is
undesirable, every bootloader should be adapted to support this fall-back for
their installation procedure (TODO).
* gnu/bootloader/grub.scm (install-grub-efi)[efi-dir]: Skip when the EFI-DIR
argument is set to #f.
When the image type is "raw" or derived from it (such as "qcow2"), an ESP
partition and file system is already added by the image generator. If a
conflicting user-provided EFI file system is provided, it causes the boot to
fail, as happens for the lightweight-desktop.tmpl and desktop.tmpl templates
under gnu/system/examples.
* gnu/system/image.scm (operating-system-for-image): Remove file systems whose
mount point is "/boot/efi".
Reported by Florian Pelz:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11/msg00326.html.
* gnu/installer/utils.scm (call-with-time): New procedure,
(let/time): new macro.
* gnu/installer/parted.scm (with-delay-device-in-use?): Increase the retry
count to 16.
(non-install-devices): Remove the call to with-delay-device-in-use? as it
doesn't return the expected result, and would block much longer now.
(free-parted): Log the time required to sync each device.
Reported by Florian Pelz:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11/msg00326.html.
* gnu/installer/utils.scm (call-with-time): New procedure,
(let/time): new macro.
* gnu/installer/parted.scm (with-delay-device-in-use?): Increase the retry
count to 16.
(non-install-devices): Remove the call to with-delay-device-in-use? as it
doesn't return the expected result, and would block much longer now.
(free-parted): Log the time required to sync each device.
While this repo should presumably always have a .dir-locals.el
by the nature of this file itself, it seems that this behavior "leaks".
See added comment for more details on the fix to this strange bug,
which is likely an upstream emacs or vc-mode issue.
Thanks to Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas and Maxim Cournoyer for helping
investigate this problem.
* .dir-locals.el: Don't error out if .dir-locals.el isn't found.
Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/44649>.
Reported by Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>.
This is a followup to 6799e6e578, which
rightfully removed the '.cil' file from the distribution, but wrongfully
installed the '.cil.in' file instead of the '.cil' file.
* Makefile.am (nodist_selinux_policy_DATA): Remove ".in".
