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

[Josh Marshall]

Looks like https://dumps.repology.org/ provides sufficient data to
have this kind of mapping, provided there is some leg work to map
distros to their multiple respective repositories.

On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 4:45 PM Josh Marshall
<joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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