Re: Self-contained Guix tarball

["Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> I’ve given that a try since it’s actually quite simple to do.  The
> procedure in the attached file produces a self-contained tarball.  It
> contains the closure of Guix, as well as /var/guix and an initial
> /root/.guix-profile from which one can use the ‘guix’ commands.
>
> I’ve uploaded the result (for x86_64) at:
>
>   http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guix-tarball-0.8.1.1140.tar.lz
>   http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guix-tarball-0.8.1.1140.tar.lz.sig
>   SHA1: afde62b3e9f97f9ae0c57eaccfaca842b157cd2f
>
> To install Guix on a foreign distro, follow these steps:
>
>   1. Download the tarball (38 MiB.)
>
>   2. As root, run:
>        cd /
>        tar xf /path/to/guix-tarball-0.8.1.1140.tar.lz
>      You need lzip and GNU tar.
>
>   3. Setup the daemon as explained in the manual, and run it from
>      /root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon.
>
> And hopefully, that’s it.
>
> I haven’t actually tried it, so feedback is welcome!  :-)

It works perfectly!

- Dave