Dear all.
I'm very new to guix, so forgive me if my question is clearly
answered out there and I cannot even identify where or which the
answer is. I prefer to be very explicit and not assume anything
as obvious. :)
From reading the documentation and a previous reference on this
list about virtual machines that I'm still trying to make work,
I understand that in guix we can have different, parallel
software installations coexisting in different /environments/,
each and all of them independent and documented in a way that
can be reproduced in other computers.
So I have my current emacs installation, with it's literate
configuration consisting in just a few org files that is almost
working. I'd like to install a newer emacs version in a new
environment and try to move there, piece by piece, my
configuration.
This operation may serve 2 purposes:
1. identify the small places with issues to iron out in the
configuration while in parallel my current emacs allows me to
keep working as it is.
2. document that installation so that when I migrate the whole
machine to guix, it should be only a matter of copying that
installation documentation and it should install and run exactly
the same.
If this assumption is right, is...
- "The Isolated Build Environment" the relevant place to read in
the documentation
(https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/guix.html#The-Isolated-Build-Environment),
- the "3.8 Installing Guix in a Virtual Machine"
(https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/guix.html#Installing-Guix-in-a-VM)
which I think is the previously one referenced on this list, or
- yet another?
As always, thank you very much not only for the information, but
for the convivial feeling of this community. :)
Warm regards...
--
eduardo mercovich
Donde se cruzan tus talentos
con las necesidades del mundo,
ahí está tu vocación.
(Anónimo)
