From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Subject: Re: #850644: RFP: Guix in Debian Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:58:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87lfskfbru.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y3gjtair.fsf@aikidev.net> <87sgte2ml5.fsf@yucca> <87v9xu4f8l.fsf@yucca> <87d0dwz8qx.fsf@yucca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33448) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iUnXt-000303-Dk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2019 02:58:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87d0dwz8qx.fsf@yucca> (Vagrant Cascadian's message of "Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:43:34 -0800") 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: Vagrant Cascadian Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, 850644@bugs.debian.org Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2019-05-28, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On 2019-05-16, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>> So in a bit of a focused run of packaging, I've been chasing the >>> dependency chain necessary to get guix building on Debian: > > Summary: all the dependencies are in Debian! Congratulations and thanks! That is beautiful. >> Bootstrapping the system with MES is also WIP in Guix, and it might be >> possible to build identical bootstrap binaries using MES in Debian at >> some point: >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/902174 > > I've made some progress on packaging MES as well, but I'm not sure we > want to wait till that's done to upload to Debian... Although GNU MES is now part of the Guix bootstrap, a regular Guix build does not depend on mes; so I would suggest not to have guix wait for that. Thoughts? Greetings, janneke --=20 Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar=C2=AE http://AvatarAcademy.com