Short writeup on deterministic system configuration with GNU Guix

Short writeup on deterministic system configuration with GNU Guix

[Pjotr Prins]

A short writeup on how Guix handles sudo:

  https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/SYSCONFIG.org

Comments?

Pj.

Re: Short writeup on deterministic system configuration with GNU Guix

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hi Pjotr,

Nice text.  I like the journey following sudo that you took, instead of
providing a broad overview in general.  I have a few suggested
corrections:
- There are a couple of paren issues (Github highlights them, I guess
  some of them may be the result of only partially copying sexps).
- " system services, timezone and locale settings, user accounts—"
                                                 ^- and instead of ,
- "next copied to /etc and finally permissions are set."
       ^- it is                   ^- its  
- "should only be done when it has a clear purpose"
                            there is a good reason to do so
- " it free from"
    ^- replace it with is
- "because the require"
              ^- y
- "allows for creating new Guix expressions."
  Not sure what this means — was it left there from a previous version?
- "Alternatively create"
                 ^- you can
- "create the packager"
                     ^- drop the r
- "The next evolutionary step, light-weight containers in conjunction
   with GNU Guix, system administration"
   Maybe "The next evolutionary step in systems administration,
   light-weight containers in conjunction with GNU Guix,"

HTH!

Alex

Pjotr Prins writes:

> A short writeup on how Guix handles sudo:
>
>   https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/SYSCONFIG.org
>
> Comments?
>
> Pj.

Re: Short writeup on deterministic system configuration with GNU Guix

[Thompson, David]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> wrote:
> A short writeup on how Guix handles sudo:
>
>   https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/SYSCONFIG.org
>
> Comments?

Good stuff, Pjotr!  I'm going to share this.

- Dave

Re: Short writeup on deterministic system configuration with GNU Guix

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> A short writeup on how Guix handles sudo:
>
>   https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/SYSCONFIG.org

Nice stuff!

It might make sense to distinguish Guix (the package manager) and GuixSD
to avoid confusion.  For instance, “How does Guix configure sudo?”
explains how GuixSD handles ‘sudo’; Guix itself doesn’t do anything to
address setuid binaries, so someone using Guix on another distro might
be surprised.

Thank you for sharing!

Ludo’.