GNU bug report logs - #30760
'initrd-modules' check has false positives

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 30760 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#30760: guix system init broken on non GuixSD
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 23:52:21 +0100

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> The current tradeoff is to make that diagnostic based on the running
> kernel, even if it’s an approximation.

Ah, good point.

> If that’s fine with you I’d like to fix this bug with the conservative
> patch below.

Sure, looks good.

While we are approximating we could also in a later version fall back to
(the host system's) "`cat /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe` --showconfig" - it
could be used to find aliases.

But maybe that would make it brittle.  Hmm...

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