Re: Guix on Debian (was: GSoC ideas)

[Efraim Flashner]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:36:52AM -0800, Diane Trout wrote:
> > Hosting a .deb file on our own server that users could download and
> > install with dpkg would be perfect for us.
> 
> Actually the best thing to do would be to put the debs into a signed 
> repository, for example https://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/ is a utility that 
> lets you create your own apt-gettable repositories.
> 
> The guix on debian instructions would then be:
> 
> apt-key add (signing key)
> add "deb http://<server>/debian guix main" to 
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/guix.list
> apt-get update
> apt-get install guix
> 
> this allows apt-get update to get new versions.

Another option would be to include in the pre/post install script to add
the repo if it's not already there. I know some third party repos delete
and recreate their files, my `tor+http` setting keeps on getting
overwritten.

> The nix hydra paper implies that it can build packages and installers for non-
> nix systems. I assume the guix version can as well?
> 
> > Thanks for the hard work, Diane!
> 
> You're welcome, I'm glad this may be useful to others. :)
> 
> Diane
> 

I haven't looked too closely at the code yet, so appologies if you've
already taken care of it. In the guix manual it says not to install the
binary installer over an existing install, does the deb you've created
make sure to not do that?

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