From: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
To: Chris Dale <adventureonthehighseas@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:25:55 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v4oa6ak.fsf@karetnikov.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANV_ih8M4YRYChDBxV9VR5LMrgoJc4MZ5RCfJUPwagvvOQEOiw@mail.gmail.com> (Chris Dale's message of "Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:47:42 -0500")
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> I'm a fairly happy arch user, but if I could drop a Guix userland
> distro on top of it, I could easily see myself doing that full time.
Guix can be used as a package manager. Try something like the following
(I suggest to create a chroot first):
$ git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git nixpkgs-github
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guix.git
$ cd guix
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure --localstatedir=/nix/var --with-nixpkgs=nixpkgs-github
$ make && make check
(You might need other packages [1].)
If you don't want to run 'make install', you'll have to prepend
'./pre-inst-env' (it sets the needed variables) to all commands. For
instance, this command should build GNU Hello:
$ ./pre-inst-env guix build -K hello
Don't forget to run the daemon [2] prior to that:
$ ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=nixbld &
Also, it seems that your current distro contains non-free packages. I
highly recommend you to switch to a free one [3] (e.g., Parabola [4]).
There is a guide that might help [5], but I haven't tried it myself.
> Linux distro
Please don't use this term [6].
Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions.
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/README
[2] https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Invoking-guix_002ddaemon
[3] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
[4] https://parabolagnulinux.org
[5] https://wiki.parabolagnulinux.org/Migration
[6] https://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-12 1:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-08 22:08 Google Summer of Code project concepts Chris Dale
2013-04-09 6:36 ` Brandon Invergo
2013-04-11 12:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-11 15:00 ` Chris Dale
2013-04-11 19:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-11 19:47 ` Chris Dale
2013-04-12 1:25 ` Nikita Karetnikov [this message]
2013-04-12 20:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-12 22:19 ` Chris Dale
2013-04-14 14:50 ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-04-09 12:04 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-04-09 12:32 ` Chris Dale
2013-04-09 14:00 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-04-11 19:38 ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-04-11 12:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
[not found] ` <878v4s1acq.fsf@naga.invergo.net>
2013-04-09 12:37 ` Chris Dale
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