Re: Renewed Guix Europe and GNU efforts - What can we do to help Guix and GNU?

[Efraim Flashner]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 10:32:03AM +0100, Oliver Propst wrote:
> On 2024-12-12 10:23, Oliver Propst wr
> > Well I assume that some hacking on the Hurd is necessary to get good
> > Guix/Hurd support. I personally see it as it might should the Guix
> > project top priority to get Hurd in a good or at least better shape.
> > Maybe we can discuss things like this more at the Guix days but I
> > guess maybe somethings could be done  towards this effort before the
> > event.
> 
> While I might have some things in mind feel welcome to mention if there is
> anything I can do get better Guix/Hurd support before the Guix days/FOSDEM.
> 
> Maybe we who is interested in Guix could for example do a better job
> reaching out the Hurd folks (something I have tried to do to in the past
> btw). But also of course feel welcome to mention if there is something else
> that could be done towards improving the situation around the Hurd kernel.

For Guix Days I could see tutorial/walktrhough of adding a childhurd and
getting it set up for offloading to it. From there it's basically the
same as any other 'build and fix'.

In terms of hacking on it, that might be more of figuring out (possibly
ahead of time) how insert a newer hurd/mig based on what people are
hacking on without causing a full hurd world rebuild.

Also a "see, it's easy to spin up a VM with most of your config and play
around in there to see how well it works without needing a spare
computer" would probably be good.

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