Re: Shepherd in Debian

[Tobias Alexandra Platen <guix@platen-software.de>]

This is definitively interesting. Currenltly my plan is to use Shepherd
on my smartphone which has both Debian and Android installed. On top of
Debian I have a working guix install and guix is also shared on
Android. I also plan to use guix-android:
https://framagit.org/tyreunom/guix-android

On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 17:10 +0100, Simon Josefsson via Development of
GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've packaged Shepherd 1.0.0 and guile-fibers 1.3.1 for Debian, and
> they
> are in the NEW queue pending copyright review.  Meanwhile you can
> test
> the Salsa amd64 and i386 builds like this:
> 
> echo 'deb [trusted=yes]
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/guile-fibers/-/jobs/6733535/artifacts/raw/aptly
>  unstable main' | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list.d/add.list
> echo 'deb [trusted=yes]
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/shepherd/-/jobs/6737847/artifacts/raw/aptly
>  unstable main' | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list.d/add.list
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install shepherd
> 
> It was possible to install it on my Trisquel aramo laptop, so I
> suspect
> it will work on a varied mix of not-necessarily latest Debian,
> Ubuntu,
> PureOS, Trisquel, Devuan, Gnuinos etc.  Feel free to build the
> packages
> yourself if you don't trust the pre-built binaries, sources are here:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/guile-fibers
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/shepherd
> 
> The package provides /usr/bin/herd and /usr/bin/shepherd, bash
> completion, translations, info manual and man pages.
> 
> The halt, reboot and shutdown tools are not installed as that felt
> like
> a bad idea.
> 
> There is no integration into any system services, the packaging is
> minimal.
> 
> I've not tested it beyond running 'herd --help' and 'shepherd --
> help',
> which is the reason for this e-mail: could someone test and give some
> example of a useful thing to use this for on Debian?
> 
> Patches, merge requests, and co-maintainers on the packaging are
> welcome.
> 
> Btw, running 'herd --help' prints a lot of warnings like below.  Any
> ideas where these come from and/or how to silence them?  Salsa used
> Guile 3.0.9 and my laptop has Guile 3.0.7, if that matters.
> 
> ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-
> gnu/guile/3.0/site-ccache/shepherd/scripts/herd.go failed:
> ;;; In procedure load-thunk-from-memory: incompatible bytecode
> version
> 
> /Simon