From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, David Seaward <dseaward925@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:52:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shf15qn0.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171002163817.bypveuihimo5akw2@abyayala>
ng0 writes:
> Christopher Allan Webber transcribed 0.6K bytes:
>> Konrad Hinsen writes:
>>
>> > On 02/10/2017 11:18, David Seaward wrote:
>> >
>> >> To what extent is support for other distros a priority for the Guix
>> >> project? In other words, explicitly planning to make Guix available as
>> >> an alternate installation source on non-Guix-SD distros.
>> >
>> > That's already possible right now. Go to the download page and check for
>> > "GNU Guix 0.13.0 Binary". This is Guix for other Linux distros, as a
>> > look at the installation instructions will confirm. I am using this on a
>> > Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation on my laptop.
>> >
>> > Konrad.
>>
>> It would still be nice if we provided .deb/.rpm/etc files on that page.
>
> By my own observation, systems including Guix either officially
> or by third-party / community methods:
Cool!
> Archlinux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guix/
> Gentoo: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/guix
These provide Guix in their own upstream repository so I think it would
be good to mention on the Download page.
> Debian: from past discussion and on request from Whonix iirc it is currently
> not possible due to Debian Packaging Standards (expected package
> behavior) or something along the lines, see guix-devel archives.
> Fedora: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/lantw44/guix/
> Slackware: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/system/guix/
> is on 0.12, needs an update. Any slacker up for that task?
> Otherwise, ping the maintainer:
> > Maintained by: Hunter Sezen
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-02 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-02 9:18 Scope of support for Guix on other distros David Seaward
2017-10-02 14:03 ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-10-02 15:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-02 16:00 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-02 16:38 ` ng0
2017-10-02 18:52 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2017-10-02 19:12 ` ng0
2017-10-03 7:48 ` Tobias Platen
2017-10-03 9:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-10-03 10:38 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-03 19:16 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-10-04 10:17 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-03 9:27 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-10-03 10:02 ` David Seaward
2017-10-03 10:37 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-10-04 14:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-05 13:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-07 10:11 ` ng0
2017-10-07 13:22 ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-10-08 15:22 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-10-02 18:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-10-02 19:30 ` Pjotr Prins
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