From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:52:19 -0500 Message-ID: <87shf15qn0.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <1506935892.5574.15.camel@gmail.com> <9f2ed1cd-f7df-1a8f-8789-15bc53e46233@fastmail.net> <87tvzh5ylu.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20171002163817.bypveuihimo5akw2@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40507) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dz5pK-00048o-V4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:52:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dz5pH-0000eU-1I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:52:27 -0400 Received: from dustycloud.org ([50.116.34.160]:53204) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dz5pG-0000dV-TX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:52:22 -0400 In-reply-to: <20171002163817.bypveuihimo5akw2@abyayala> 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: ng0 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, David Seaward ng0 writes: > Christopher Allan Webber transcribed 0.6K bytes: >> Konrad Hinsen writes: >> >> > On 02/10/2017 11:18, David Seaward wrote: >> > >> >> To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix >> >> project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as >> >> an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros. >> > >> > That's already possible right now. Go to the download page and check for >> > "GNU Guix 0.13.0 Binary". This is Guix for other Linux distros, as a >> > look at the installation instructions will confirm. I am using this on a >> > Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation on my laptop. >> > >> > Konrad. >> >> It would still be nice if we provided .deb/.rpm/etc files on that page. > > By my own observation, systems including Guix either officially > or by third-party / community methods: Cool! > Archlinux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guix/ > Gentoo: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/guix These provide Guix in their own upstream repository so I think it would be good to mention on the Download page. > Debian: from past discussion and on request from Whonix iirc it is currently > not possible due to Debian Packaging Standards (expected package > behavior) or something along the lines, see guix-devel archives. > Fedora: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/lantw44/guix/ > Slackware: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/system/guix/ > is on 0.12, needs an update. Any slacker up for that task? > Otherwise, ping the maintainer: > > Maintained by: Hunter Sezen Since these don't provide Guix in the main repo (and Debian won't because we violate the FHS with /gnu/) we could probably auto-generate the .deb or .rpm from some gexp?