From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: guile-git trouble (building from source) - guix archive to the rescue Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:55:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20170811145545.GA20919@thebird.nl> References: <87mv7dyfgq.fsf@elephly.net> <873795lnoi.fsf@gnu.org> <20170806134510.GA20166@thebird.nl> <87ini05iku.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43005) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgBMW-0005M1-EF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:56:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgBMT-0000NA-Do for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:56:32 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ini05iku.fsf@dustycloud.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" To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 07:26:25PM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > > I wish we had a bullet proof way of installing from source. I had it > > with guix environment and now that won't work because guile-git is > > missing and I can't bootstrap... > > Save us, content addressed storage! :) > How about providing a Guix-archive of guix on the download page? That is how I rescued myself before by building an archive elsewhere and installing that. Version incombatibilities are not likely to be disruptive and we can provide older versions too. The alternative is using a Guix binary install in a proot and build Guix from there. And create an archive that can be installed. Having a Guix archive on the download page with the latest build would make it real easy to rescue an existing Guix installation. Besides, people will be intrigued by what that download is. Pj. --