gnu: linux-libre@4.19: Update to 4.19.146.

[jackhill/guix/guix.git] / TODO

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@@ -3,32 +3,14 @@
 #+TITLE: What's left to do?
 #+STARTUP: content hidestars
 
 #+TITLE: What's left to do?
 #+STARTUP: content hidestars
 

-Copyright © 2012, 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+Copyright © 2019 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>

 
   Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
   are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
   notice and this notice are preserved.
 
 
   Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
   are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
   notice and this notice are preserved.
 

-* integrate needed Nix code
-
-** Remove dependency on OpenSSL
-
-The ‘openssl’ command-line tool is used in libstore to sign store paths
-to be exported, and to check such signatures.  The signing keys are
-usually in /etc/nix/signing-key.{pub,sec}.  They are a PKCS#8-encoded
-X.509 SubjectPublicKeyInfo.  These can be decoded with the [[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnutls/2012-12/msg00012.html][C API of
-GnuTLS]], but not yet with its Guile bindings.  There’s also
-‘gnutls_privkey_sign_data’ to sign, and related functions.
-
-
-** Add `guix publish' to publish the store using Guile's web server
-
-Generate narinfos and nars on the fly, upon HTTP GET requests.
-Ideally, extend .nix-cache-info to include the server's public key, and also
-reply to requests for .narinfo.sig.
-Optionally, use Guile-Avahi to publish the service.
-
-** MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]]
+* MAYBE Add a substituter that uses the GNUnet DHT or [[http://libswift.org][libswift]]

 
 Would be neat if binaries could be pushed to and pulled from the GNUnet DHT or
 rather libswift (since DHTs aren’t suited for large payloads).  Guix users
 
 Would be neat if binaries could be pushed to and pulled from the GNUnet DHT or
 rather libswift (since DHTs aren’t suited for large payloads).  Guix users


@@ -36,20 +18,10 @@ would sign their binaries, and define which binaries they trust.
 
 Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does.
 
 
 Use UPnP and similar to traverse NAT, like ‘filegive’ does.
 

-** Add a remote build hook
-
-Like scripts/build-remote.pl in Nix.
-

 * user interface
 * user interface

-** Add a package.el (Emacs) back-end
-
-package.el is quite monolithic, but we may be able to reuse/extend
-‘package-menu-mode’ or at least ‘tabulated-list-mode’.
-

 ** add guile-ncurses interface
 
 * extend <package>
 ** add guile-ncurses interface
 
 * extend <package>

-

 ** add ‘recommends’ field
 
 For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other.
 ** add ‘recommends’ field
 
 For instance, glibc, binutils, gcc, and ld-wrapper would recommend each other.


@@ -73,32 +45,6 @@ create a new ‘dir’.
       ("i3" ,p3)))
 #+END_SRC
 
       ("i3" ,p3)))
 #+END_SRC
 

-* MAYBE use HOP-like escapes to refer to inputs in build-side code
-
-Instead of doing things like:
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
-  (inputs `(("foo" ,foo)))
-  (arguments '(#:configure-flags
-               (list (string-append "--with-foo="
-                                    (assoc-ref %build-inputs "foo")))))
-#+END_SRC
-
-Allow things like:
-
-#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
-  (inputs (list foo))
-  (arguments ~(#:configure-flags
-               (list (string-append "--with-foo=" $foo))))
-  
-#+END_SRC
-
-... where '~' is 'build-quote' and '$' is 'build-unquote'.  Better yet,
-automatically compute the list of references of an expression passed to
-'derivation-expression'.
-
-Use a [[http://dorophone.blogspot.fr/2011/09/scheme-syntax-is-monad.html][monad]] for the syntax.
-

 * synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]]
 
 Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be
 * synchronize non-GNU package descriptions with the [[http://directory.fsf.org][FSD]]
 
 Meta-data for GNU packages, including descriptions and synopses, can be


@@ -112,27 +58,16 @@ The Guildhall is Guile’s packaging system.  It should be easy to add a
 ‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall
 recipes.
 
 ‘guildhall-build-system’ that does the right thing based on guildhall
 recipes.
 

-* add ‘allowed-references’ in <package>
-
-[[file:~/src/nix/src/libstore/build.cc::if%20(drv.env.find("allowedReferences")%20!%3D%20drv.env.end())%20{][See how Nix implements that internally]].
-

 * union
 
 * union
 

-Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: check
-whether the colliding files are identical, honor per-package priorities,
-etc.
+Support sophisticated collision handling when building a union: honor
+per-package priorities, etc.

 
 * add GUIX_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE_TESTS
 
 Tests that need to download stuff or otherwise take a long time would only be
 run when that is defined.
 
 
 * add GUIX_ALLOW_EXPENSIVE_TESTS
 
 Tests that need to download stuff or otherwise take a long time would only be
 run when that is defined.
 

-* add "guix challenge"
-
-Would download a substitute, and compare its contents against a (hopefully
-locally-built) copy.
-
-

 * guix build utils
 ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
 
 * guix build utils
 ** MAYBE Change ‘ld-wrapper’ to add RPATH for libs passed by file name
 


@@ -143,13 +78,47 @@ locally-built) copy.
 See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]].
 
 * distro
 See [[https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/d1662d715514e6ef9d3dc29f132f1b3d8e608a18][Shea Levy's `replace-dependency' in Nixpkgs]].
 
 * distro

-** port to new GNU/Linux platforms, notably ‘mipsel64-linux’

 ** port to GNU/Hurd, aka. ‘i686-gnu’
 
 Problems include that current glibc releases do not build on GNU/Hurd.
 In addition, there haven’t been stable releases of GNU Mach, MiG, and
 Hurd, which would be a pre-condition.
 
 ** port to GNU/Hurd, aka. ‘i686-gnu’
 
 Problems include that current glibc releases do not build on GNU/Hurd.
 In addition, there haven’t been stable releases of GNU Mach, MiG, and
 Hurd, which would be a pre-condition.
 

-** make a bootable GNU/Linux-Libre distro, with OS configuration EDSL
-
-Similar in spirit to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix.
+* Installer
+** Fix impossibility to restart on error after cow-store has been started
+See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00161.html.
+- Force reboot upon installer failure
+- Unshare the installer process
+- Run the installer process in a separate namespace
+** Partitioning
+*** Add RAID support
+*** Add more partitioning schemes
+The actual schemes are taken from Debian Installer but some are not
+implemented yet: like "Separate partitions for /home /var and /tmp".
+*** Replace wait page "Partition formating is in progress, please wait"
+Create a new waiting page describing what's being done:
+
+[              20%              ]
+Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda2 ...
+
+[              40%              ]
+Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda3 ...
+*** Add a confirmation page before formating/partitioning
+** Desktop environments
+*** Allow for no desktop environments
+Propose to choose between "headless server" and "lightweight X11" in a new
+page.
+*** Add services selection feature
+Add a services page to the configuration. Ask for services to be installed
+like SSH, bluetooth, TLP in a checkbox list?
+** Locale and keymap
+*** Try to guess user locale and keymap by probing BIOS or HW (dmidecode)
+** Timezone
+*** Regroup everything in one single page
+Under the form:
+(UTC + 1) Europe/Paris
+(UTC + 2) Africa/Cairo
+...
+** Display issue
+*** Investigate display issue described here:
+https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-01/msg00305.html