linux-libre: Support module compression.

This commit adds support for GZIP compression for linux-libre kernel
modules. The initrd modules are kept uncompressed as the initrd is already
compressed as a whole.

The linux-libre kernel also supports XZ compression, but as Guix does not have
any available bindings for now, and the compression time is far more
significant, GZIP seems to be a better option.

* gnu/build/linux-modules.scm (modinfo-section-contents): Use
'call-with-gzip-input-port' to read from a module file using '.gz' extension,
(strip-extension): new procedure,
(dot-ko): adapt to support compression,
(ensure-dot-ko): ditto,
(file-name->module-name): ditto,
(find-module-file): ditto,
(load-linux-module*): ditto,
(module-name->file-name/guess): ditto,
(module-name-lookup): ditto,
(write-module-name-database): ditto,
(write-module-alias-database): ditto,
(write-module-device-database): ditto.
* gnu/installer.scm (installer-program): Add "guile-zlib" to the extensions.
* gnu/machine/ssh.scm (machine-check-initrd-modules): Ditto.
* gnu/services.scm (activation-script): Ditto.
* gnu/services/base.scm (default-serial-port): Ditto,
(agetty-shepherd-service): ditto,
(udev-service-type): ditto.
* gnu/system/image.scm (gcrypt-sqlite3&co): Ditto.
* gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (flat-linux-module-directory): Add "guile-zlib"
to the extensions and make sure that the initrd only contains
uncompressed module files.
* gnu/system/shadow.scm (account-shepherd-service): Add "guile-zlib" to the
extensions.
* guix/profiles.scm (linux-module-database): Ditto.

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/services.scm b/gnu/services.scm
index 11ba21e824..3e59c6401f 100644
--- a/gnu/services.scm
+++ b/gnu/services.scm
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
   #:use-module (guix modules)
   #:use-module (gnu packages base)
   #:use-module (gnu packages bash)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages guile)
   #:use-module (gnu packages hurd)
   #:use-module (srfi srfi-1)
   #:use-module (srfi srfi-9)
@@ -585,28 +586,29 @@ ACTIVATION-SCRIPT-TYPE."
                 (with-imported-modules (source-module-closure
                                         '((gnu build activation)
                                           (guix build utils)))
-                  #~(begin
-                      (use-modules (gnu build activation)
-                                   (guix build utils))
-
-                      ;; Make sure the user accounting database exists.  If it
-                      ;; does not exist, 'setutxent' does not create it and
-                      ;; thus there is no accounting at all.
-                      (close-port (open-file "/var/run/utmpx" "a0"))
-
-                      ;; Same for 'wtmp', which is populated by mingetty et
-                      ;; al.
-                      (mkdir-p "/var/log")
-                      (close-port (open-file "/var/log/wtmp" "a0"))
-
-                      ;; Set up /run/current-system.  Among other things this
-                      ;; sets up locales, which the activation snippets
-                      ;; executed below may expect.
-                      (activate-current-system)
-
-                      ;; Run the services' activation snippets.
-                      ;; TODO: Use 'load-compiled'.
-                      (for-each primitive-load '#$actions)))))
+                  (with-extensions (list guile-zlib)
+                    #~(begin
+                        (use-modules (gnu build activation)
+                                     (guix build utils))
+
+                        ;; Make sure the user accounting database exists.  If
+                        ;; it does not exist, 'setutxent' does not create it
+                        ;; and thus there is no accounting at all.
+                        (close-port (open-file "/var/run/utmpx" "a0"))
+
+                        ;; Same for 'wtmp', which is populated by mingetty et
+                        ;; al.
+                        (mkdir-p "/var/log")
+                        (close-port (open-file "/var/log/wtmp" "a0"))
+
+                        ;; Set up /run/current-system.  Among other things
+                        ;; this sets up locales, which the activation snippets
+                        ;; executed below may expect.
+                        (activate-current-system)
+
+                        ;; Run the services' activation snippets.
+                        ;; TODO: Use 'load-compiled'.
+                        (for-each primitive-load '#$actions))))))
 
 (define (gexps->activation-gexp gexps)
   "Return a gexp that runs the activation script containing GEXPS."