[Nix-dev] Nix-based GNU/Hurd image!

Lluís Batlle i Rossell viric at viric.name
Thu Nov 10 11:21:37 CET 2011


Sal!

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:53:22PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name> skribis:
> 
> > Don't you want to reuse anything from nanonixos? It has sysvinit, a simple rc
> > script, and multiple ttys. :)
> 
> Actually I don’t think I need anything this sophisticated for now.  ;-)

It's not very sofisticated :)

> > I've not tried your image, but I'm sure it's nice work. So, only GPLv3 software
> > there running? Or are there some "flaws"? ;)
> 
> It turns out that the Hurd itself is still GPLv2+.  :-)

Ah, I didn't expect that. When will we have a OS with GPLv3+ only?

> But anyway, that wasn’t the goal of this image; the goal is to test the
> OS and applications (cross-)built for it.

Ok!
Btw, does it fail now?
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1544014


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