Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

2012-10-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Alexandre Oliva lxol...@fsfla.org writes: Also, would it be possible to have them on ftp.gnu.org as well? Sure, as soon as some convenient way to upload to ftp.gnu.org is available. The current upload procedure to ftp.gnu.org just doesn't fit the size, frequency and automation we depend on,

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

2012-10-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Hi, Richard Stallman r...@gnu.org skribis: Yes, I ll do that. Technically though, Linux-Libre is a set of scripts that touch .c files. [...] Please point at those sources to get the .h files. Looking at

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

2012-10-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Actually, each user as a forest of symlinks under ~/.nix-profile pointing to packages installed by the user. So in the above example, you would typically have $HOME/.nix-profile/lib in $LIBRARY_PATH, and you would link against libfoo from there, and the

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

2012-10-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: How does that sound? :-) Great, I'd love to use a technically appealing GNU-approved distro. The issue I identified early on with the NixOS ideas is how to deal with security upgrades. IIRC, the old response was that this is an open issue and further

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

2012-10-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: All in all, from experience with NixOS, while security upgrades are more demanding on Nix-based systems, they are not much of an issue in practice. Thanks for explaining. However I don't see how a locally built binary would fit into this? They would

Re: Update on distro bootstrapping with Guix

2012-10-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [2] https://gitorious.org/guix/guix/blobs/master/distro/packages/base.scm Any particular reason it uses kernel.org Linux instead of Linux libre? /Simon