From: Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche.boubekki@gmail.com>
To: Cyprien Nicolas <cyprien@nicolas.tf>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Goals for 0.4
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:40:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL7_Mo-4hjHgSefM6bud9gvbF64pCc5nCMwVrGSz-Ac35_F3rQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130830160948.GB5927@kubera.inria.fr>
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I will just add that this feature is available in nixos
http://nixos.org/wiki/Nix%28OS%29_related_repositories_and_work
2013/8/30 Cyprien Nicolas <cyprien@nicolas.tf>
> Il y a 20 heures, Ludovic Courtès écrivit :
>
> > Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche.boubekki@gmail.com> skribis:
> >
> > > What about the possiblity to use overlays ?
> >
> > Could you elaborate?
> >
> > I hear this comes from the Gentoo jargon, but I’m not sure what
> > that means.
>
> I like the idea. I'll try to elaborate myself, as a Gentoo user for
> years ;-) I describe them from my own experience, official
> documentation can be found there [1]
>
> In Gentoo, ebuilds (the files that specify how to build a package from
> source) are stored in the "portage tree", which is the official
> repository. The tree consists of directories, one per category, plus
> one sub-directory par package, where package directories contains one
> or more ebuilds, one ebuild per package version. (plus some
> additional files, like patches.)
>
> "Portage" (the tool used to install packages from source, through the
> "emerge" command) looks for ebuild in that directory, but it can also
> looks from other directories which follow the same structure, those
> directories are called "overlays", as they can mask packages from the
> official tree, but also extend it.
>
> They are plenty of overlays usage: experimental packages,
> user-contributed packages, locally used packages for testing purposes…
>
>
> However, overlay create new concerns. First, priority of overlays, if
> two provide the same package-version combination, which one to choose?
> If Overlay A provide Package P, which depends on Library L, not in
> Overlay A but in the "base" repository, and that Overlay B provide
> a newer version of Library L, which L to choose?
>
> Handling build failure of packages using overlays can be quite tricky
> too. ;-)
>
> And last, how and where to "centralize" overlays, in order to give
> user a tool to easily add, remove, update overlays.
>
>
> 1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml
>
> --
> Cyprien/Fulax
>
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2013-08-29 12:34 Goals for 0.4 Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-29 13:16 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-08-29 13:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-30 17:55 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-08-30 18:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-31 16:40 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-08-31 18:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-31 20:34 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2013-08-31 21:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-01 23:16 ` New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options (was: Goals for 0.4) Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-02 9:08 ` New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-05 1:30 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-05 20:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-05 21:14 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-07 19:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-08 10:59 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-08 20:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-09 9:17 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-09 16:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-11 5:16 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-11 21:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-12 9:17 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-12 12:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-13 14:44 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-13 21:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-16 11:12 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-16 12:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-18 0:43 ` PRELIMINARY: [PATCH] guix package: Add '--list-generations' Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-18 17:35 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-18 21:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-19 0:49 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-19 9:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-19 11:48 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-19 12:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-21 20:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-18 21:35 ` PRELIMINARY: " Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-22 19:19 ` [PATCH] guix package: Add '--delete-generations' Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-22 20:15 ` Generation 0 (was: [PATCH] guix package: Add '--delete-generations'.) Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-22 21:15 ` Generation 0 Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-23 10:14 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-23 15:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-24 0:54 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-24 5:56 ` [PATCH] guix package: Show which generation is the current one. (was: Generation 0) Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-24 12:45 ` [PATCH] guix package: Show which generation is the current one Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-24 13:55 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-24 14:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-25 2:10 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-25 12:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-24 12:43 ` Generation 0 Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-24 22:29 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-25 12:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-25 18:07 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-25 19:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-26 2:18 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-26 9:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-22 20:55 ` [PATCH] guix package: Add '--delete-generations' Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-23 10:11 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-23 15:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-24 7:21 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-24 12:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-24 13:57 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-25 4:21 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-25 13:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-26 2:47 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-26 9:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-27 19:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-03 19:21 ` MIPS64/N64 support (was: Goals for 0.4) Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-03 20:45 ` MIPS64/N64 support Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-04 0:35 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-04 12:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-06 8:35 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-06 9:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-07 2:45 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-07 12:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-08 14:21 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-08 19:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-09 5:38 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-09 16:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-27 2:16 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-27 19:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-29 13:27 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-29 13:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-29 23:18 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-30 11:32 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-30 16:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-30 21:51 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-01 7:09 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2013-10-01 7:48 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-01 8:03 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2013-10-01 8:55 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-01 8:59 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-01 9:30 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2013-10-01 10:06 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-01 10:04 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2013-10-01 11:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-01 11:56 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2013-10-07 18:47 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-10-07 19:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-08 23:03 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-10-09 6:53 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-10-09 10:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-09 10:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-10 4:08 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-09-30 16:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-29 15:49 ` Goals for 0.4 Amirouche Boubekki
2013-08-29 20:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-30 16:09 ` Cyprien Nicolas
2013-08-30 17:40 ` Amirouche Boubekki [this message]
2013-08-30 19:31 ` Overlays Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-30 20:42 ` Overlays Nikita Karetnikov
2013-08-30 21:21 ` Overlays Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-31 10:56 ` Overlays Amirouche Boubekki
2013-08-31 15:57 ` Overlays Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-29 20:42 ` Goals for 0.4 Andreas Enge
2013-08-29 21:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-25 8:43 ` Andreas Enge
2013-09-25 13:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-26 11:35 ` Andreas Enge
2013-09-28 13:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-29 21:29 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2013-09-02 17:33 ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-09-02 19:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-02 19:40 ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-09-02 21:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-06 9:19 ` ‘--no-substitutes’ is ignored on i686 (was: Goals for 0.4) Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-06 9:59 ` ‘--no-substitutes’ is ignored on i686 Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-07 8:43 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-07 13:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-09-08 11:53 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-08 11:51 ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-09-08 13:22 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-09-24 21:59 ` Goals for 0.4 Ludovic Courtès
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