GNU bug report logs - #41855
[PATCH 0/2] hurd-boot: Cleanups: Remove MAKEDEV, then use setxattr (on the Hurd).

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: "Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Cc: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] hurd-boot: Cleanups: Remove MAKEDEV,
 then use setxattr (on the Hurd).
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 18:54:30 +0200

From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org>

Hi!

Several variants of these patches were present on wip-hurd-vm before.

Currently, we are running MAKEDEV from activation, and thus need hurd, bash,
coreutils and sed in PATH.

The first patch replaces that with scheme code, which seems a no-brainer to
me.  Then we only need hurd in PATH for settrans and gettrans.

The second patch then switches to using setxattr instead of settrans; alas we
still need gettrans as getxattr behaves "funny" on translated nodes.  I
suppose that would be a question for the bug-hurd?

Greetings,
Janneke

Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen (2):
  hurd-boot: Create individual translators instead of running MAKEDEV.
  hurd-boot: Use 'setxattr' instead of invoking settrans.

 gnu/build/hurd-boot.scm | 172 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 gnu/system.scm          |   1 +
 2 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

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