From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Installing Guix on foreign distros Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:36:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87k2mekw5z.fsf_-_@gnu.org> References: <20160206113802.GA17867@thebird.nl> <87mvre2eyz.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpqhu0t1.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20160208104530.GA26946@crashnator.suse.cz> <87zivbxggp.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87lh6vx9v0.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20160208204350.GA29053@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aT5es-0005Dn-49 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 05:36:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aT5em-0004K8-JN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 05:36:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160208204350.GA29053@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Mon, 8 Feb 2016 21:43:50 +0100") 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: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel Pjotr Prins skribis: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:47:31AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> So, I talked about this with Stefano Zacchiroli while at FOSDEM. He >> suggested that we could do /opt/g/ or something like that and we *could* >> get Guix in as a package manager to Debian. Sure, it wouldn't be able >> to use the Hydra packages, but it's probably okayish. > > Unless users get binaries they won't be happy. +1 >> We could also build apt / rpm packages which we just provide ourselves, >> on the Guix website, or by providing some PPA'ish thing. I would have >> preferred this myself when I started running Debian on Guix... and in >> this route we could keep everything as it already is. (But people will >> have to take an extra step to "get to" those nice packages.) > > That looks like the way forward to me. Such a package can setup and > start the daemon - which is enough. No need to get the blessing from > the distributions themselves (will take time, but it will come - there > really is no difference with allowing foreign packages to work anyway). Yeah, I think you=E2=80=99re right. There are already people who wrote Arch/Parabola and RPM (openSuSE) packages, AFAIK. I=E2=80=99m not sure what the status is? If someone familiar with dpkg could chime in, we could host the infrastructure to build the .deb somewhere. Ludo=E2=80=99.