From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix in Debian!
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:05:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh0tma1c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czxv56af.fsf@yucca> (Vagrant Cascadian's message of "Sat, 23 Jan 2021 20:04:56 -0800")
Hi!
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> skribis:
> So, a while back I mentioned that Guix was present in Debian
> "experimental":
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11/msg00254.html
>
> And it was useable for a brief window of time, but was broken due to
> some issues with guile-gnutls and guile-3.0:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/964284
Yeah, that’s an annoying issue in guile-gnutls awaiting a satisfactory fix:
https://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2020-December/004676.html
If those following at home have a fresh mind and would like to give it a
spin, that’d be most welcome!
> Just a few days ago, I decided to attempt to get Guix into Debian's next
> release, and went with the fallback plan of building it against
> guile-2.2, and a few disabled tests later...
>
> https://tracker.debian.org/guix
>
>
> If all goes well, it should migrate to "bullseye" in a few
> days. Hopefully in a few months "bullseye" will become Debian's stable
> release shipping with guix! Presumeably Guix will also eventually find
> itself in Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives...
Woohoo!
> Now on Debian you should be able to:
>
> apt install guix
> guix install dpkg
> guix environment --ad-hoc dpkg -- dpkg -i ./guix_1.2.0-3_amd64.deb
>
> It is almost like symmetry!
Now that’s impressive. :-)
Someone on IRC recently asked whether one could use dpkg/apt on Guix
(Guix System, I assume). What does it take to get dpkg working on Guix
System?
Thank you!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-28 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-24 4:04 Guix in Debian! Vagrant Cascadian
2021-01-24 4:22 ` Joshua Branson
2021-01-24 5:58 ` Taylan Kammer
2021-01-24 8:18 ` Konrad Hinsen
2021-01-24 11:18 ` david larsson
2021-01-24 22:04 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2021-01-25 11:36 ` zimoun
2021-01-25 17:16 ` Roel Janssen
2021-01-28 14:05 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-01-28 17:20 ` Joshua Branson
2021-02-28 15:56 ` Pjotr Prins
2021-02-28 18:38 ` Andreas Enge
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