From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:00:54 +0000 Message-ID: <87h96o631l.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> References: <878ts212ic.fsf@dustycloud.org> <871sxt1sho.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87r35t42qe.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <87r35szth9.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54270) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCCwE-0002Jy-JH for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:01:15 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCCw9-00011H-OH for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:01:14 -0500 Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:48084) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCCw9-0000zz-Ia for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:01:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87r35szth9.fsf@dustycloud.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Christopher Allan Webber writes: > ng0 writes: > >> Christopher Allan Webber writes: >> >>> Onwards and upwards! >>> - Chris >> >> In theory we could also try to init GuixSD from within an Debian >> image (server), couldn't we? >> >> So we could also make a list of commonly offered virtual server >> distribution choices and try to init GuixSD from within them and >> see if it just works. >> Is there anyone who tried that before? > > That's what most of the NixOS guides do. Okay, so the goal is to provide something different or better or less 'hacky' / manual? > (Btw, was moving this from help-guix to guix-devel for a specific > reason?) Sorry, I did not notice the list name, I thought it was on guix-devel. I don't separate. -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 | ng0.chaosnet.org