Subject: [bug#51737] [PATCH v3 1/8] gnu: Add linux-libre-waydroid.

From: phodina <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:49:00 +0000

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On Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 at 7:51 AM, Liliana Marie Prikler <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Am Montag, dem 31.10.2022 um 19:30 +0000 schrieb phodina:
> 
> > Regarding the Waydroid (Android) image.
> > 
> > We are currently unable to build the whole image due to the issues
> > summarized by Julien Lepiller on the 10 Years of Guix. Thanks for the
> > presentation! [1]
> > 
> > However, there is project in Nix that allows to build the image. [2]
> > 
> > Would it be possible to use that instead of the one hardcoded in
> > Waydroid?
> 
> IIUC you would have to translate the nix packages there into guix
> packages, assuming there's a 1:1 translation (which might not be the
> case since everything's just a derivation in Nix). You also have to
> take into account different quality guidelines between Guix and Nix –
> Guix tends to be more stringent.
> 
> Since it's possible to specify the URLs via command line, how about
> simply removing the defaults and making the respective command line
> options required for the time being?

I agree with you to submit a patch which will remove the default image and require the user to pass the image as argument.

In order to build the image and not just blindly download and run some off the internet I suggest to use Robotnix project, which is a way how to build the whole Android image.

Once we have all the necessary components in Guix we can build the image ourselves.

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Petr