From: Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
Cc: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>,
indieterminacy <indieterminacy@libre.brussels>,
guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Could Guix System eventually run on top of HyperbolaBSD ? slightly off topic
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 22:12:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zghejdi5.fsf@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bktuspp0.fsf@jpoiret.xyz>
Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> writes:
>
>> I would love for Guix to be a Multi Kernel package manager (I mean it
>> works on the Hurd also, but I have never encountered a Hurd user in real
>> life). My dream would be to port Guix to Plan 9 ;-)
>
> I don't think Guix runs on the Hurd in the same way that Guix runs on
> Linux: the (gnu system hurd) tells me that the daemon is started with
> --disable-chroot, which actually disables all isolation mechanisms.
> There would need to be a significant effort to port the isolation
> mechanisms to the Hurd.
>
> Seeing how the daemon is in general left alone since C++ is hard
> compared to Scheme (and there's always the "but we could rewrite it in
> Guile" excuse), combined with the difficulty of interfacing with
> kernels, I'm not sure BSD support (or even Hurd support) will appear
> anytime soon.
>
> Best,
Someone was working on NetBSD support but ran into libc differences or
something and didn't get much support.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-12 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-11 22:44 Could Guix System eventually run on top of HyperbolaBSD ? slightly off topic Joshua Branson
2022-07-12 0:16 ` indieterminacy
2022-07-12 2:18 ` Joshua Branson
2022-07-12 3:56 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-12 13:39 ` Joshua Branson
2022-07-12 8:25 ` Josselin Poiret
2022-07-12 13:36 ` Joshua Branson
2022-07-12 20:12 ` Csepp [this message]
2022-07-14 10:23 ` zimoun
2022-07-14 10:40 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-07-14 13:06 ` zimoun
2022-07-14 15:38 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2022-07-15 11:09 ` Csepp
2022-07-19 21:46 ` jbranso
2022-07-19 21:44 ` jbranso
2022-07-19 21:43 ` jbranso
2022-07-19 21:41 ` jbranso
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-07-20 16:03 Raghav Gururajan
2022-07-20 16:49 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-21 16:27 ` zimoun
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