From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Self-contained Guix tarball Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 08:54:48 +0200 Message-ID: <20150413065448.GA6451@thebird.nl> References: <20150410084651.GA23353@thebird.nl> <873848p5kd.fsf@gnu.org> <20150410131420.GB24509@thebird.nl> <87a8ydt8k8.fsf_-_@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhYHF-0004di-Gh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 02:55:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YhYHA-0001nd-IF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 02:55:25 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87a8ydt8k8.fsf_-_@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org The tar-ball works a treat!! Simply download and tar -C / --lzip -xvf guix-tarball-0.8.1.1140.tar.lz export ~/.guix-profile/bin:$PATH Add the build users, update the /gnu/store permissions and start the daemon and that is it (which could be covered by a simple shell script). This should work on ANY Linux, provided kernel and architecture are compatible. Very nice. GNU Guix out of a box. No more installation pain. The tar-ball should go in the standard download directory. I would name the tar ball with something 'binary', maybe add the supported Linux versions (3.x?) and the architecture in the name. Just to be complete. There may be other editions later. Pj.