Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
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> Especially on underpowered aarch64 systems with custom kernels it may be
> desirable to avoid rebuilding the kernel on "guix deploy" or "guix
> system reconfigure". It's possible to use an inferior to pin the kernel
> to a known good version.
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work when attempting to customize the kernel
> with "customize-kernel" as that procedure doesn't accept an inferior as
> an input package.
"customize-kernel" works by inheriting from a base package. It then
augments the arguments.
Inheriting from an inferior package does not work, though. Nor is there
a procedure to obtain the arguments of an inferior package. The naïve
approach of simply defining inferior-package-arguments fails:
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(define (inferior-package-arguments package)
"Return the arguments field of PACKAGE."
(inferior-package-field package 'package-arguments))
...
(inferior-package-arguments linux-libre-arm64-generic/fixed)
ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
socket:20:156: Unknown # object: "#<"
