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Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix loss
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Josh Marshall |
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Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly |
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Wed, 11 Oct 2023 09:18:05 -0400 |
Very helpful!
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, 6:37 AM Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2023 at 23:49, Josh Marshall <
> joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a base minimal system of Ubuntu with Guix and Nix tacked on. I
> > would like to move everything over to Guix with Nix tacked on. Is
> > there a guide on how to do this?
>
> To me knowledge, no.
>
> Well, IMHO, the path forward would be to create a system configuration
> file based; give a look to gnu/system/examples in Guix source for
> inspiration. :-)
>
> Then test that configuration from Ubuntu by generating VM. Once you are
> more or less happy with your config.scm, then you can run it on
> bare-metal.
>
> Here, you have an incremental path with a simple feedback loop in the
> comfort of your current environment that already works. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> simon
>