From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 12:57:06 -0600 Message-ID: <87r35szth9.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <878ts212ic.fsf@dustycloud.org> <871sxt1sho.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87r35t42qe.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45780) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCA46-0000r1-CA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:57:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCA45-0006yd-HU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:57:10 -0500 Received: from dustycloud.org ([2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:cb51]:52318) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCA45-0006yV-Cs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:57:09 -0500 In-reply-to: <87r35t42qe.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> 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: ng0 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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. (Btw, was moving this from help-guix to guix-devel for a specific reason?)