Subject: Re: [bug#40422] [PATCH] gnu: kmod: Update to 27.

From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 16:45:48 +0200

Brice Waegeneire <[email-masked]> writes:

> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (kmod): Update to 27. Enable tests.
> ---
>
> This patch need to be merge on core-updates because > 2200 packages will need
> to be rebuilt.  Without this patch (in particular `--sysconfdir=/etc`) it's
> not possible to pass module arguments to `kernel-module-loader` from
> <https://issues.guix.info/issue/40274>.

As the core-updates branch is frozen right now, could you submit this
patch as a 'kmod/next' variable?  See e.g. 'help2man/latest' or
'automake-1.16.2' for inspiration.

After the core-updates merge, we can do a larger 'staging' round that
updates the default 'kmod'.

I wonder if we should patch eudev to use
/run/current-system/profile/bin/ instead of /gnu/store/...kmod/bin so
that we can update kmod without triggering a huge rebuild.