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<civodul>even with CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y i fail to get the serial console early at boot <davexunit>I am writing a package for an image library, freeimage, and I wanted some thoughts on consolidating all of the various modules for image libraries into one (gnu packages image) module. <davexunit>libpng, libtif, and libjpeg each have their own module. <davexunit>but maybe that one could stay as its own module <civodul>you can post a patch to that effect on guix-devel, just in case someone objects *civodul heads off to the swimming pool <davexunit>civodul: thanks for the feedback, I'll have the patches fixed up tonight hopefully. <davexunit>especially on the changelog format, I can never keep all the rules straight. <davexunit>I knew you'd have a suggestion for the substitute* line, so thanks for that, too. I was on a time crunch at the time. <civodul>actually i was surprised to see that it worked at all :-) <davexunit>civodul: I wrote it expecting it not to work. <davexunit>and then saw it work and moved on to testing the resulting package. <civodul>i guess it's the beauty of referential transparency, after all <davexunit>civodul: I am trying to write a package for a library whose source distribution is in a zip file, by default this does not work with the gnu build system. <davexunit>is there a phase I need to replace in order for it to work? <civodul>davexunit: yes, the 'unpack' phases uses tar <davexunit>I had to run off to work as soon as I had the error and didn't get to look further. <davexunit>I've been very pleased by how easy it is to tweak the build system to deal with package oddities. <civodul>yeah, still a bit verbose and inconvenient here and there, but that's ok <davexunit>civodul: how is the bootable disk image going? <civodul>davexunit: progress had stalled with the core-updates stuff i had to do, and now with getting a kernel with enough modules <civodul>'guix system disk-image' can already build an image with the basic stuff needed for installatino <civodul>from there one can run 'guix system init', which initializes the user's system <civodul>though of course there are still few services, etc. <civodul>it means that as soon as you install, say, Avahi, you end up pulling all of Python 3 <civodul>just because GLib has two Python scripts