Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Artyom Shalkhakov
Hello, Cite from the homepage: Nix is a purely functional package manager. It allows multiple versions of a package to be installed side-by-side, ensures that dependency specifications are complete, supports atomic upgrades and rollbacks, allows non-root users to install software, and has

Re: Bits from the Debian Installer team

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Tautschnig
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Re: Is The number of stable users dropping fast?

2008-12-24 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Dienstag, den 23.12.2008, 17:37 +0100 schrieb Michelle Konzack: Am 2008-12-22 14:37:58, schrieb Paul Wise: I note that Ubuntu has more than an order of magnitude more popcon submitters: Because it is installed and activated by default... (At least on the Machine I have installed for a

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Artyom Shalkhakov wrote: Hello, Hello, Nix is a purely functional package manager. It allows multiple versions of a package to be installed side-by-side, ensures that dependency specifications are complete, supports atomic upgrades and rollbacks, allows non-root users to install software,

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Artyom Shalkhakov
Hi Eugene, 2008/12/24 Eugene V. Lyubimkin jackyf.de...@gmail.com: The claims that I think are valuable are: - *all* dependencies of a package are automatically found by Nix, no exceptions, Hmm... Nix probably use libastral, doesn't it? Even for C/C++ programs there is no way to 100%

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 05:17:28PM +0600, Artyom Shalkhakov wrote: It looks like you completely misunderstood the idea, so lurk before you post. Thanks. You can't post a two-sentence summary of a new package manager to debian-devel, say discuss and then shoot down replies by claiming the person

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 24 décembre 2008 à 17:17 +0600, Artyom Shalkhakov a écrit : It has nothing to do with our apt infrastructure, it doesn't understand it and invented its own wheel. I think no way for Nix in Debian. We have excellent dpkg, we have not-so-excellent, but rather good apt, and

Re: Bits from the Debian Installer team

2008-12-24 Thread Mario Fux
Am Mittwoch, 24. Dezember 2008 schrieb Michael Tautschnig: Good morning [...] - New features: [...] support for realtime mount options I think this^ was meant to be relatime, and it is a single mount option. Yes. Sorry it's my fault. I thought it was a typo and changed it in

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Artyom Shalkhakov wrote: Hmm... Nix probably use libastral, doesn't it? Even for C/C++ programs there is no way to 100% automatically determine entire list of runtime libraries/tools needed for some particular program (consider runtime library opening and all non-library dependencies). This

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: If you want to do something useful, I suggest that you grab the interesting ideas from nix (like binary deltas) and propose patches for APT to implement them. Debian already has binary deltas (debdelta), but it isn't

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Всеволод Величко
Hello. While I was writing, Josselin Mouette said almost all I wanted to say, but I'll add a little :) 2008/12/24 Artyom Shalkhakov artyom.shalkha...@gmail.com: The claims that I think are valuable are: - *all* dependencies of a package are automatically found by Nix, no exceptions, Hmm...

Re: system users

2008-12-24 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sat, 15.11.2008 at 08:49:12 +0100, Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: On some systems like OpenBSD, all those users are starting with underscore to avoid collision with real users. On Debian, I have never seen this, even for packages that comes from OpenBSD (like

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Artyom Shalkhakov
Sorry, I forgot to forward this to debian-devel. -- Forwarded message -- From: Artyom Shalkhakov artyom.shalkha...@gmail.com Date: 2008/12/24 Subject: Re: Adoption of Nix? To: Eugene V. Lyubimkin jackyf.de...@gmail.com 2008/12/24 Eugene V. Lyubimkin jackyf.de...@gmail.com:

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Artyom Shalkhakov
Sorry, I forgot about the debian-devel for the second time. :( -- Forwarded message -- From: Artyom Shalkhakov artyom.shalkha...@gmail.com Date: 2008/12/24 Subject: Re: Adoption of Nix? To: Всеволод Величко torkvem...@nigma.ru Hi Vsevolod, 2008/12/24 Всеволод Величко

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Artyom Shalkhakov wrote: 2008/12/24 Eugene V. Lyubimkin jackyf.de...@gmail.com: Which means that find all dependencies with no exceptions is not true. This is how Nix developers put it: Runtime dependencies are found by scanning binaries for the hash parts of Nix store paths (such as

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Drake Wilson
Quoth Artyom Shalkhakov artyom.shalkha...@gmail.com, on 2008-12-24 17:17:28 +0600: It looks like you completely misunderstood the idea, so lurk before you post. Thanks. Debian List Search, list devel, author match artyom shalkhakov: two matches, all in this thread, not including your most

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Всеволод Величко
Hi. 2008/12/24 Artyom Shalkhakov artyom.shalkha...@gmail.com: Well, as I see, it uses it's own package format, which is wrapper-description around everything - source, deb or rpm. Does it really have any sense? Every problem in computer science can be solved by adding a layer of

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Steve Kemp
Yes, you are probably right: I don't understand how Nix may be useful for Debian (and for GNU/Linux also). That's too bad for you. Shallow thinking doesn't get you anywhere. As promoter/recommender surely the onus is upon you to demonstrate: 1. Nix is good. 2. Nix is better than

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 18:55:20 Steve Kemp wrote: Yes, you are probably right: I don't understand how Nix may be useful for Debian (and for GNU/Linux also). That's too bad for you. Shallow thinking doesn't get you anywhere. As promoter/recommender surely the onus is upon you

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/24/08 10:55, Drake Wilson wrote: Quoth Artyom Shalkhakov artyom.shalkha...@gmail.com, on 2008-12-24 17:17:28 +0600: It looks like you completely misunderstood the idea, so lurk before you post. Thanks. Debian List Search, list devel, author match artyom shalkhakov: two matches, all in

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
Hi there. As I'm sure everyone knows, I'm not exactly unbiased here since I've done a lot of work on the apt system (although nix looks more like a replacement for dpkg). This is the same package manager that was posted on lambda-the-ultimate a while back, right? Since you didn't provide a

Bug#509685: ITP: hardlink -- Hardlink multiple copies of the same file

2008-12-24 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org * Package name: hardlink Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Julian Andres Klode j...@jak-linux.org * URL : http://git.debian.org/?p=users/jak/hardlink.git;a=summary * License : MIT *

Bug#509689: ITP: libjinput-java -- portable joystick and gamepad library for java

2008-12-24 Thread Johan Henriksson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johan Henriksson maho...@areta.org * Package name: libjinput-java Version : 0.0.20081224 Upstream Author : Jeff Kesselman jef...@dev.java.net et al * URL : https://jinput.dev.java.net/ * License : BSD3 Programming

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2008-12-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article 200812241947.08458.danc...@spnet.net you wrote: Hm, Nix seems to be born in academia, and based on by someone's PhD thesis, so there might be some good ideas to consider out of it, but the whole story smells like the promoter is trying to sell mercedeses to Daimler (i.e.

Accepted mapserver 5.2.1-1 (source all i386)

2008-12-24 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
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Accepted avfs 0.9.8-6 (source i386)

2008-12-24 Thread Michael Meskes
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Accepted tork 0.30-2 (source all i386)

2008-12-24 Thread Patrick Matthäi
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Accepted liboobs 2.22.0-2 (source amd64)

2008-12-24 Thread Josselin Mouette
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Accepted kvm 72+dfsg-4 (source all i386)

2008-12-24 Thread Jan Lübbe
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Accepted tcl8.5 8.5.6-1 (source all i386)

2008-12-24 Thread Sergei Golovan
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Accepted startupmanager 1.9.12-1 (source all)

2008-12-24 Thread Marco Rodrigues
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Accepted tk8.5 8.5.6-1 (source all i386)

2008-12-24 Thread Sergei Golovan
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Accepted piklab 0.15.4-1 (source amd64)

2008-12-24 Thread Miriam Ruiz
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Accepted wide-dhcpv6 20080615-2 (source amd64)

2008-12-24 Thread Jeremie Corbier
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Accepted drbd8 2:8.3.0-1 (source all amd64)

2008-12-24 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
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Accepted debget 1.6+nmu1 (source all)

2008-12-24 Thread David Paleino
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Accepted spectrum-roms 20081224-1 (source all)

2008-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
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Accepted soci 3.0.0+cvs20081223-1 (source i386)

2008-12-24 Thread Bradley Smith
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Accepted augeas 0.3.5-1 (source all amd64)

2008-12-24 Thread Free Ekanayaka
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Accepted libmtp 0.3.5-1 (source all amd64)

2008-12-24 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
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Accepted wicd 1.5.7-1 (source all)

2008-12-24 Thread David Paleino
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Accepted pekwm 0.1.9a-1 (source amd64)

2008-12-24 Thread Daniel Moerner
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Accepted numactl 2.0.3~rc1-1 (source i386)

2008-12-24 Thread Ian Wienand
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Accepted mgp 1.13a-1 (source i386)

2008-12-24 Thread Barry deFreese
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Accepted gnome-power-manager 2.24.2-1 (source amd64)

2008-12-24 Thread Sjoerd Simons
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Accepted claws-mail 3.7.0-1 (source all amd64)

2008-12-24 Thread Ricardo Mones
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Accepted gamazons 0.83-3 (source i386)

2008-12-24 Thread Bart Martens
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Accepted soap-lite 0.710.08-2 (source all)

2008-12-24 Thread Damyan Ivanov
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Accepted pavucontrol 0.9.7-1 (source amd64)

2008-12-24 Thread Sjoerd Simons
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Accepted discus 0.2.9-5 (source all)

2008-12-24 Thread Sandro Tosi
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Accepted ctypes 1.0.2-6 (source amd64)

2008-12-24 Thread Debian Python Modules Team
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Accepted screenie 1.30.0-5.1 (source all)

2008-12-24 Thread Nico Golde
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Accepted zsh-beta 4.3.9-dev-1+20081218-1 (source all)

2008-12-24 Thread Clint Adams
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Accepted sylpheed 2.6.0-1 (source all amd64)

2008-12-24 Thread Ricardo Mones
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Accepted planner-el 3.42-1 (source all)

2008-12-24 Thread John Sullivan
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