Hi! Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> skribis:
> So, a while back I mentioned that Guix was present in Debian > "experimental": > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11/msg00254.html > > And it was useable for a brief window of time, but was broken due to > some issues with guile-gnutls and guile-3.0: > > https://bugs.debian.org/964284 Yeah, that’s an annoying issue in guile-gnutls awaiting a satisfactory fix: https://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-help/2020-December/004676.html If those following at home have a fresh mind and would like to give it a spin, that’d be most welcome! > Just a few days ago, I decided to attempt to get Guix into Debian's next > release, and went with the fallback plan of building it against > guile-2.2, and a few disabled tests later... > > https://tracker.debian.org/guix > > > If all goes well, it should migrate to "bullseye" in a few > days. Hopefully in a few months "bullseye" will become Debian's stable > release shipping with guix! Presumeably Guix will also eventually find > itself in Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives... Woohoo! > Now on Debian you should be able to: > > apt install guix > guix install dpkg > guix environment --ad-hoc dpkg -- dpkg -i ./guix_1.2.0-3_amd64.deb > > It is almost like symmetry! Now that’s impressive. :-) Someone on IRC recently asked whether one could use dpkg/apt on Guix (Guix System, I assume). What does it take to get dpkg working on Guix System? Thank you! Ludo’.