From: Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:48:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFkJGRfus_OW_jphff2X9dFO616wzQVxC5_d3fRv7q1fJkUHFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFkJGReT6L0kbO9AR=KsSjbQvOoaTbMi7RZUP-18wLF+wYfvsQ@mail.gmail.com>
Looks like https://dumps.repology.org/ provides sufficient data to
have this kind of mapping, provided there is some leg work to map
distros to their multiple respective repositories.
On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 4:45 PM Josh Marshall
<joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One thing which could be done is to use https://repology.org/ to map
> currently installed packages from detected package managers to
> available packages in Guix and inform the user about missing packages.
> That could help.
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 9:18 AM Josh Marshall
> <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Very helpful!
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, 6:37 AM Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Tue, 03 Oct 2023 at 23:49, Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have a base minimal system of Ubuntu with Guix and Nix tacked on. I
> >> > would like to move everything over to Guix with Nix tacked on. Is
> >> > there a guide on how to do this?
> >>
> >> To me knowledge, no.
> >>
> >> Well, IMHO, the path forward would be to create a system configuration
> >> file based; give a look to gnu/system/examples in Guix source for
> >> inspiration. :-)
> >>
> >> Then test that configuration from Ubuntu by generating VM. Once you are
> >> more or less happy with your config.scm, then you can run it on
> >> bare-metal.
> >>
> >> Here, you have an incremental path with a simple feedback loop in the
> >> comfort of your current environment that already works. :-)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> simon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-18 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-04 3:49 Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly Josh Marshall
2023-10-07 15:17 ` jbranso
2023-10-07 19:55 ` Josh Marshall
2023-10-07 22:29 ` wolf
2023-10-11 9:47 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-11 13:18 ` Josh Marshall
2023-10-13 20:45 ` Josh Marshall
2023-10-18 1:48 ` Josh Marshall [this message]
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