unofficial mirror of help-guix@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
To: Guix-Help <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Several questions on Guix(SD)
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 22:53:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160822225350.32c08923@alma-ubu> (raw)

Dear list,

since I watched that LibrePlanet video on GuixSD, I installed it in a
QEMU environment and I'm very fascinated about it. It's a nice concept,
having package management the functional and FSDG way. And that concept
is reality. It works!

I'm trying to learn to use and understand the system, and found out
several things for myself or through documentation or other people's
question on the list. But there is a lot left which I would like to ask
here. I hope it is not too much:

 * Do you have the concept of package maintainers, like in Debian?
   People who are responsible for each package, apply patches, etc?

 * Are there "recommmended"/"sugggested" dependencies? For example,
   diffoscope complained that "'readelf' is not on the path. Falling
   back to binary comparison." That could be a candidate for a package
   not needed at compile/runtime but that would enhance the usage if
   present.

 * I have for example in my store:
   * /gnu/store/abc...-tar-1.29/
   * /gnu/store/xyz...-tar-1.29/

   Can I somehow figure out what's the differnce between them, how
   they came into the system, which one is "newer"? I tried diffoscope
   and found some marginal, crypted hex-differences.

 * Can I somehow get a store history? I.e. a (ordered) list of
   installation progress. "ls -ltr /gnu/store" was my first try
   but it obviously fails.

 * Is there a log for the deamon? I only found the
   "/var/log/guix/drvs", which seam to be only logs of each compilation.
   BTW, what do the two letters of the subfolders mean? 

 * Is there a list of builds available that are not reproducible? Or is
   that (eq? _ '()) ?

 * Are any other Hydra instances running other than the GNU ones that
   could be challenged?

 * If I would like to set up my own Hydra server, how much storage space
   takes the whole hydra-archive of substitutes (for each platform)? Or
   only the %base-packages?

 * How much time takes it to recompile all packages in Hydra?


Thank you in advance,

Björn

             reply	other threads:[~2016-08-22 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-22 20:53 Björn Höfling [this message]
2016-08-22 21:49 ` Several questions on Guix(SD) Leo Famulari
2016-08-25 21:03   ` Björn Höfling
2016-08-26 23:15     ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-26 23:23     ` Leo Famulari
2016-08-29  9:36       ` Björn Höfling
2016-08-30 12:24   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-23  7:25 ` Florian Paul Schmidt

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://guix.gnu.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20160822225350.32c08923@alma-ubu \
    --to=bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de \
    --cc=help-guix@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).