From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:27:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87bmlo4m3w.fsf@elephly.net> 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: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45180) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzJUz-0003Uh-PA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 05:28:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzJUw-0008Mm-Jc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 05:28:21 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21003) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzJUw-0007g7-B1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 05:28:18 -0400 In-reply-to: <87shf15qn0.fsf@dustycloud.org> 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: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, David Seaward Christopher Allan Webber 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 =E2=80=9Cdeb=E2=80=9D package f= ormat to =E2=80=9Cguix pack=E2=80=9D. We can already create fat tarballs, so it sho= uldn=E2=80=99t be too much effort to create fat Debian archives. --=20 Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net