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‘guix system image’ forces commit authentication?

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Message #8 received at 57229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 57229 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57229: ‘guix system image’ forces commit authentication?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 11:02:13 +0200

Hey,

> λ ./pre-inst-env guix system image -t iso9660 
> gnu/system/install.scm --disable-authentication
> guix system: error: disable-authentication: unrecognized option

That's probably a side effect of https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53210 that
includes the "current-guix" inside the installation image instead of the
latest Guix snapshot.

To build "current-guix", we rely on the channel-build-system and
ultimately the latest-channel-instance procedure. This procedure takes an
"authenticate?" argument.

Now passing this option will be tricky as we do not call
latest-channel-instance directly like in (guix scripts pull) but rather
rely on the "current-guix" variable.

I'll think more about it.

Mathieu

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