From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Lemmer Webber Subject: Re: It's time to build "guix deploy" Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:57:59 -0500 Message-ID: <87ef8e5q4o.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87k2wx6t1e.fsf@fsf.org> <87h8da5u5k.fsf@dustycloud.org> <20190211140203.cy745yyhtujv56ip@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtD24-0002bm-10 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:58:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtD23-0004Ix-CR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:58:03 -0500 Received: from dustycloud.org ([2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:cb51]:49574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtD23-0004G0-7i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:58:03 -0500 In-reply-to: <20190211140203.cy745yyhtujv56ip@thebird.nl> 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: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Pjotr Prins writes: > I am also interested in 'guix deploy', especially if it can run on top > of Debian and handle HOME directories. I should also say: I'm not considering how "guix deploy" could or would handle running on top of Debian *or* handle HOME directories. Both of those feel out of scope to me, but for different reasons: - "guix deploy" would deploy by, well, building guix system profiles and then pushing them out. So I'm not sure how Debian would fit in there... - Mutable state of the system is hard to tackle. We might need to tackle some degree of it, but I think that would be in post-install-hooks type things which might sometimes do that on server?