From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Diane Trout Subject: Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:36:52 -0800 Message-ID: <2781798.k6h2xUkh81@myrada> References: <87mvre2eyz.fsf@gnu.org> <20160224070409.GA10474@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49924) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYfF7-0002in-Ds for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:37:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYfF4-0005WM-58 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:37:01 -0500 Received: from chaos.caltech.edu ([131.215.34.119]:50942) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYfF3-0005WC-VM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:36:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: 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: "Thompson, David" Cc: guix-devel > Hosting a .deb file on our own server that users could download and > install with dpkg would be perfect for us. Actually the best thing to do would be to put the debs into a signed repository, for example https://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/ is a utility that lets you create your own apt-gettable repositories. The guix on debian instructions would then be: apt-key add (signing key) add "deb http:///debian guix main" to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/guix.list apt-get update apt-get install guix this allows apt-get update to get new versions. The nix hydra paper implies that it can build packages and installers for non- nix systems. I assume the guix version can as well? > Thanks for the hard work, Diane! You're welcome, I'm glad this may be useful to others. :) Diane