Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

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Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 0.5K bytes:
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> Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
> 
> > Since these don't provide Guix in the main repo (and Debian won't
> > because we violate the FHS with /gnu/) we could probably auto-generate
> > the .deb or .rpm from some gexp?
> 
> I was thinking about adding support for the “deb” package format to
> “guix pack”.  We can already create fat tarballs, so it shouldn’t be too
> much effort to create fat Debian archives.
> 
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If it helps, this is how cURL/gnURL creates rpms (or at least cURL):

# Build source and binary rpms. For rpm-3.0 and above, the ~/.rpmmacros
# must contain the following line:
# %_topdir /home/loic/local/rpm
# and that /home/loic/local/rpm contains the directory SOURCES, BUILD etc.
#
# cd /home/loic/local/rpm ; mkdir -p SOURCES BUILD RPMS/i386 SPECS SRPMS
#
# If additional configure flags are needed to build the package, add the
# following in ~/.rpmmacros
# %configure CFLAGS="%{optflags}" ./configure %{_target_platform} --prefix=%{_prefix} ${AM_CONFIGFLAGS}
# and run make rpm in the following way:
# AM_CONFIGFLAGS='--with-uri=/home/users/loic/local/RedHat-6.2' make rpm
#

rpms:
        $(MAKE) RPMDIST=curl rpm
        $(MAKE) RPMDIST=curl-ssl rpm

rpm:
        RPM_TOPDIR=`rpm --showrc | $(PERL) -n -e 'print if(s/.*_topdir\s+(.*)/$$1/)'` ; \
        cp $(srcdir)/packages/Linux/RPM/$(RPMDIST).spec $$RPM_TOPDIR/SPECS ; \
        cp $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.gz $$RPM_TOPDIR/SOURCES ; \
        rpm -ba --clean --rmsource $$RPM_TOPDIR/SPECS/$(RPMDIST).spec ; \
        mv $$RPM_TOPDIR/RPMS/i386/$(RPMDIST)-*.rpm . ; \
        mv $$RPM_TOPDIR/SRPMS/$(RPMDIST)-*.src.rpm .


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