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4.1 KiB
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121 lines
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-*- mode: org; coding: utf-8; -*-
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#+TITLE: What's left to do?
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#+STARTUP: content hidestars
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Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Copyright © 2019 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved.
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* MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]]
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Would be neat if binaries could be pushed to and pulled from the GNUnet DHT or
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rather libswift (since DHTs aren’t suited for large payloads). Guix users
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would sign their binaries, and define which binaries they trust.
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Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does.
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* user interface
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** add guile-ncurses interface
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* extend <package>
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** add ‘recommends’ field
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For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other.
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‘guix package -i’ could ask interactively (?), or allow users to follow all or
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none of the recommendations.
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** add a ‘user-environment-hook’
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This should specify builder code to be run when building a user
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environment with ‘guix-package’. For instance, Texinfo’s hook would
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create a new ‘dir’.
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** extend ‘propagated-build-inputs’ with support for multiple outputs
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#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
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(outputs '("out" "include"))
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(propagated-build-inputs
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`(((("i1" ,p1 "o1")
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("i2" ,p2))
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=> "include")
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("i3" ,p3)))
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#+END_SRC
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* synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]]
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Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be
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dumped from the FSD:
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http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=GNU/Export&action=purge .
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We could periodically synchronize with that.
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* add a guildhall build system
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The Guildhall is Guile’s packaging system. It should be easy to add a
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‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall
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recipes.
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* union
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Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: honor
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per-package priorities, etc.
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* add GUIX_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE_TESTS
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Tests that need to download stuff or otherwise take a long time would only be
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run when that is defined.
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* guix build utils
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** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
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** MAYBE Add equivalent to chrpath that uses [[https://gitorious.org/guile-dlhacks/guile-dlhacks/][guile-dlhacks]]
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** MAYBE Add a hash-rewriting thing for deep dependency replacement without rebuild
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See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]].
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* distro
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** port to GNU/Hurd, aka. ‘i686-gnu’
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Problems include that current glibc releases do not build on GNU/Hurd.
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In addition, there haven’t been stable releases of GNU Mach, MiG, and
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Hurd, which would be a pre-condition.
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* Installer
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** Fix impossibility to restart on error after cow-store has been started
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See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00161.html.
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- Force reboot upon installer failure
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- Unshare the installer process
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- Run the installer process in a separate namespace
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** Partitioning
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*** Add RAID support
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*** Add more partitioning schemes
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The actual schemes are taken from Debian Installer but some are not
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implemented yet: like "Separate partitions for /home /var and /tmp".
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*** Replace wait page "Partition formating is in progress, please wait"
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Create a new waiting page describing what's being done:
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[ 20% ]
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Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda2 ...
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[ 40% ]
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Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda3 ...
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** Desktop environments
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*** Allow for no desktop environments
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Propose to choose between "headless server" and "lightweight X11" in a new
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page.
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*** Add services selection feature
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Add a services page to the configuration. Ask for services to be installed
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like SSH, bluetooth, TLP in a checkbox list?
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** Locale and keymap
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*** Try to guess user locale and keymap by probing BIOS or HW (dmidecode)
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** Timezone
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*** Regroup everything in one single page
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Under the form:
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(UTC + 1) Europe/Paris
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(UTC + 2) Africa/Cairo
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...
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