Re: Self-contained Guix tarball

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Very nice. GNU Guix out of a box. No more installation pain. 
>>
>> The tar-ball should go in the standard download directory. I would
>> name the tar ball with something 'binary', maybe add the supported
>> Linux versions (3.x?) and the architecture in the name. Just to be
>> complete. There may be other editions later.
>
> Yes, something like guix-binary-0.8.2.x86_64.tar.gz?
>
> I guess we’ll publish it for the next release.

Thank you very much for this!

Could we add a package to Guix to build this?  If that is undesirable
for some reason, could we add a command to build it, and jobs on Hydra
to build it automatically on all platforms supported by the build farm,
analogous to the 'usb-image' jobs?

      Mark