From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Platen Subject: Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 09:48:06 +0200 Message-ID: <5583a861-8720-d03f-a56b-240d88bf04ea@platen-software.de> References: <1506935892.5574.15.camel@gmail.com> <9f2ed1cd-f7df-1a8f-8789-15bc53e46233@fastmail.net> <87tvzh5ylu.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20171002163817.bypveuihimo5akw2@abyayala> <87shf15qn0.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54704) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzHw6-0003eb-5i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 03:48:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzHw2-0001vf-7v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 03:48:14 -0400 Received: from v2201304502512175.yourvserver.net ([37.221.197.247]:55060 helo=v220100350252766.yourvserver.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzHw2-0001ui-1J for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 03:48:10 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.23] (pD9E9D31B.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.233.211.27]) by v220100350252766.yourvserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E7C1C14155C for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2017 09:48:07 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87shf15qn0.fsf@dustycloud.org> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org On 02.10.2017 20:52, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > ng0 writes: > >> Christopher Allan Webber transcribed 0.6K bytes: >>> Konrad Hinsen writes: >>> >>>> On 02/10/2017 11:18, David Seaward wrote: >>>> >>>>> To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix >>>>> project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as >>>>> an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros. >>>> >>>> That's already possible right now. Go to the download page and check for >>>> "GNU Guix 0.13.0 Binary". This is Guix for other Linux distros, as a >>>> look at the installation instructions will confirm. I am using this on a >>>> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation on my laptop. >>>> >>>> Konrad. >>> >>> It would still be nice if we provided .deb/.rpm/etc files on that page. >> >> By my own observation, systems including Guix either officially >> or by third-party / community methods: > > Cool! > >> Archlinux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guix/ >> Gentoo: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/guix > > These provide Guix in their own upstream repository so I think it would > be good to mention on the Download page. > >> Debian: from past discussion and on request from Whonix iirc it is currently >> not possible due to Debian Packaging Standards (expected package >> behavior) or something along the lines, see guix-devel archives. >> Fedora: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/lantw44/guix/ >> Slackware: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/system/guix/ >> is on 0.12, needs an update. Any slacker up for that task? >> Otherwise, ping the maintainer: >> > Maintained by: Hunter Sezen Parabola also has guix, but an outdated version [1]. I installed the latest binary version on my Parabola system, which I downloaded from gnu.org. > > 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? > Debian also includes GNUstep which lives in /usr/gnustep. Maybe /gnu could be moves to /usr/gnu on Debian. [1] https://www.parabola.nu/packages/?q=guix