From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Hellseher <sharlatanus@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Guix - installation script
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 08:15:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171002061524.GA8656@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170907192549.6eda6535@cbaines.net>
A script that would install the binary install package of Guix would
be very useful. It should unpack the tarball into /gnu/store and
/var/guix (checking nothing is there), set the keys and (optionally)
the build users. Ideally we should have:
wget install.sh
sudo sh install.sh
- fetchin' guix...
- unpacking guix...
- installing guix...
- fetching keys...
- set build users...
- running guix pull...
guix package -i hello
(binary installs...)
They keys of main substitute servers should just work.
I just went through helping someone install Guix remotely and it is
*too* painful. He is an experienced devop(!) It took hours, mostly
because he forgot to set the keys correctly (Guix gives no proper
feedback).
With immediate gratification people can install software - including
mine - and get into Guix itself later.
Nix used to have such an installer - it was quite good. It even had
the one-click installer.
The install.sh file can actually include the tarball - as one
download.
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-02 6:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-31 22:49 Guix - installation script Sharlatan Hellseher
2017-08-01 10:55 ` ng0
2017-08-01 17:29 ` Sharlatan Hellseher
2017-08-25 18:33 ` Christopher Baines
2017-08-26 12:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-26 20:51 ` Hellseher
2017-08-27 22:36 ` Christopher Baines
2017-09-02 16:04 ` Christopher Baines
2017-09-07 18:11 ` Hellseher
2017-09-07 18:25 ` Christopher Baines
2017-10-02 6:15 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2017-12-05 10:55 ` Catonano
2018-01-28 18:00 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-28 19:14 ` Catonano
2018-02-04 10:04 ` Hellseher
2018-02-05 11:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-11 22:31 ` myglc2
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