Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-08 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Personally, I'm against mentioning these in the download page, the reason being that I *think* it is somewhat like recommending non-free system distributions. ng0 writes: > > By my own observation, systems including Guix either officially > or by third-party / community

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-07 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 07.10.2017 um 12:11 schrieb ng0: > If it helps, this is how cURL/gnURL creates rpms (or at least cURL): > […] > rpm -ba --clean --rmsource $$RPM_TOPDIR/SPECS/$(RPMDIST).spec ; \ I'm afraid this information does not help much, since they "simply" run the rpm build command and process

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-07 Thread ng0
Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 0.5K bytes: > > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > > > 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? > > I was

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, In other news, somebody is trying to get Nix into Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877019 Might be worth seeing if they manage to overcome the administrative issues, which are going to be the same as for Guix. (Seen on

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Christopher Allan Webber writes: >> >>> 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

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-04 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Chris, Hi Mark, > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> Mark H Weaver writes: >> >>> Tobias Platen writes: >>> On 02.10.2017 20:52, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Since these don't provide Guix in the

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Chris, Christopher Allan Webber writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> Tobias Platen writes: >> >>> On 02.10.2017 20:52, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: Since these don't provide Guix in the main repo (and Debian won't because we

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-03 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> 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? > > I was thinking about adding

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-03 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Mark H Weaver writes: > Tobias Platen writes: > >> On 02.10.2017 20:52, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >>> 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

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-03 Thread David Seaward
> And I should add that we are committed to supporting Guix usage on other > distros. This is an important use case. Many thanks regarding this and other replies. I'll send follow up questions in new threads. Regards, David

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Christopher Allan Webber writes: > 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? I was thinking about adding support for the “deb” package

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Tobias Platen writes: > On 02.10.2017 20:52, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> 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? >> >

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-03 Thread Tobias Platen
On 02.10.2017 20:52, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > 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

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread Pjotr Prins
Hi David, On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:18:12AM +0200, David Seaward wrote: > Hi all, > > 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. > > The

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread ng0
Christopher Allan Webber transcribed 1.7K bytes: > 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 > >> >>

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
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 >>

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi, David Seaward writes: > 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. > > The reason I ask is that cross-distro

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread ng0
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

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
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

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Konrad Hinsen skribis: > 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

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread Konrad Hinsen
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

Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-02 Thread David Seaward
Hi all, 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. The reason I ask is that cross-distro installers are increasingly popular (for example,