Subject: Re: bug#47989: [PATCH] channels: Add a #:system argument to channel-instances->manifest.
From: Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
To: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 09:52:58 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Christopher Baines <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> This allows computing a manifest for a specific system. Previously this was
>> possible, but only through changing %current-system, which caused the
>> derivation to be computed using that system as well (so computing a derivation
>> for aarch64-linux on x86_64-linux would require running aarch64-linux code).
>>
>> This new argument adds the possibility of computing derivations for non-native
>> systems, without having to run non-native code.
>>
>> I'm looking at this as it will enable the Guix Data Service to compute channel
>> instance derivations without relying on QEMU emulation for non-native
>> systems (it should be faster as well).
>>
>> * guix/channels.scm (build-from-source): Add #:system argument and pass to
>> build.
>> (build-channel-instance): Add system argument and pass to build-from-source.
>> (channel-instance-derivations): Add #:system argument and pass to
>> build-channel-instance, also rename system to current-system-value.
>> (channel-instances->manifest): Add #:system argument and pass to
>> channel-instance-derivations.
>
> LGTM!
>
> (Please double-check that ‘make as-derivation’ or ‘guix pull --url=$PWD …’
> work, in case we overlooked something.)

Great, I've pushed this as 34985fb6ae7deffd40443766f5408649a0cbbff2 now.