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Installing Guix on foreign distros
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Installing Guix on foreign distros |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:36:24 +0100 |
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Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:47:31AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> So, I talked about this with Stefano Zacchiroli while at FOSDEM. He
>> suggested that we could do /opt/g/ or something like that and we *could*
>> get Guix in as a package manager to Debian. Sure, it wouldn't be able
>> to use the Hydra packages, but it's probably okayish.
>
> Unless users get binaries they won't be happy.
+1
>> We could also build apt / rpm packages which we just provide ourselves,
>> on the Guix website, or by providing some PPA'ish thing. I would have
>> preferred this myself when I started running Debian on Guix... and in
>> this route we could keep everything as it already is. (But people will
>> have to take an extra step to "get to" those nice packages.)
>
> That looks like the way forward to me. Such a package can setup and
> start the daemon - which is enough. No need to get the blessing from
> the distributions themselves (will take time, but it will come - there
> really is no difference with allowing foreign packages to work anyway).
Yeah, I think you’re right.
There are already people who wrote Arch/Parabola and RPM (openSuSE)
packages, AFAIK. I’m not sure what the status is?
If someone familiar with dpkg could chime in, we could host the
infrastructure to build the .deb somewhere.
Ludo’.
- Re: GSoC ideas, (continued)
- Re: GSoC ideas, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/06
- Re: GSoC ideas, Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/06
- Re: GSoC ideas, Tomáš Čech, 2016/02/08
- Re: GSoC ideas, Efraim Flashner, 2016/02/08
- Re: GSoC ideas, Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/08
- Re: GSoC ideas, Thompson, David, 2016/02/08
- Re: GSoC ideas, Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/08
- Re: GSoC ideas, Pjotr Prins, 2016/02/08
- Installing Guix on foreign distros,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: Installing Guix on foreign distros, Tomáš Čech, 2016/02/10
- Re: Installing Guix on foreign distros, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/10
- Re: Installing Guix on foreign distros, Jookia, 2016/02/10
- Re: Installing Guix on foreign distros, Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/11
- Bootstrapping, Ludovic Courtès, 2016/02/11
- Re: GSoC ideas, Diane Trout, 2016/02/23
- Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Christopher Allan Webber, 2016/02/23
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Leo Famulari, 2016/02/23
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Ricardo Wurmus, 2016/02/24
- Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas), Efraim Flashner, 2016/02/24