Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly

[Josh Marshall]

One thing which could be done is to use https://repology.org/ to map
currently installed packages from detected package managers to
available packages in Guix and inform the user about missing packages.
That could help.

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 9:18 AM Josh Marshall
<joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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