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Self-contained Guix tarball
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Self-contained Guix tarball |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 22:07:03 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:
> Well yes, you need to install all prerequisites and that is not always
> trivial. Try bootstrapping on an old Centos install, for example.
> Can't even get Docker going there.
>
> It would be nice to have an installable binary tar ball for Guix. Just
> unpack in root and go...
I’ve given that a try since it’s actually quite simple to do. The
procedure in the attached file produces a self-contained tarball. It
contains the closure of Guix, as well as /var/guix and an initial
/root/.guix-profile from which one can use the ‘guix’ commands.
I’ve uploaded the result (for x86_64) at:
http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guix-tarball-0.8.1.1140.tar.lz
http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guix-tarball-0.8.1.1140.tar.lz.sig
SHA1: afde62b3e9f97f9ae0c57eaccfaca842b157cd2f
To install Guix on a foreign distro, follow these steps:
1. Download the tarball (38 MiB.)
2. As root, run:
cd /
tar xf /path/to/guix-tarball-0.8.1.1140.tar.lz
You need lzip and GNU tar.
3. Setup the daemon as explained in the manual, and run it from
/root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon.
And hopefully, that’s it.
I haven’t actually tried it, so feedback is welcome! :-)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
(use-modules (guix)
(guix profiles)
(gnu packages base)
(gnu packages compression)
(gnu packages package-management))
(define* (self-contained-tarball #:key (guix guix))
(mlet %store-monad ((profile (profile-derivation
(manifest
(list (package->manifest-entry guix))))))
(gexp->derivation "guix-tarball.tar.lz"
#~(begin
(use-modules (guix build store-copy)
(guix build utils)
(gnu build install)
(srfi srfi-26))
(define %root
(string-append (getcwd) "/root"))
(define %root-profile
"/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root")
(define (mkdir-p* dir)
(mkdir-p (string-append %root "/" dir)))
(define (symlink* old new)
(symlink old (string-append %root "/" new)))
(setenv "PATH"
(string-append #$guix "/sbin:"
#$tar "/bin:" #$lzip "/bin"))
;; Populate the store.
(populate-store '("profile") %root)
(for-each (cut register-closure %root <>)
'("profile"))
;; 'guix-register' registers profiles as GC roots
;; but the symlink target uses $TMPDIR. Fix that.
(delete-file
(string-append %root
"/var/guix/gcroots/profiles"))
(symlink* "/var/guix/profiles"
"/var/guix/gcroots/profiles")
;; Make root's profile, which makes it a GC root.
(mkdir-p* %root-profile)
(symlink* #$profile
(string-append %root-profile
"/guix-profile-1-link"))
(symlink* (string-append %root-profile
"/guix-profile-1-link")
(string-append %root-profile
"/guix-profile"))
(mkdir-p* "/root")
(symlink* (string-append %root-profile
"/guix-profile")
"/root/.guix-profile")
;; Create the tarball. Use GNU format so there's no
;; file name length limitation.
(chdir %root)
(zero? (system* "tar" "--lzip" "--format=gnu"
"-cvf" #$output ".")))
#:references-graphs `(("profile" ,profile))
#:modules '((guix build utils)
(guix build store-copy)
(gnu build install)))))
;; (pk (with-store store
;; (run-with-store store (self-contained-tarball))))
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- Copying whole /gnu/store from USB does not work, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/10
- Re: Copying whole /gnu/store from USB does not work, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/10
- Re: Copying whole /gnu/store from USB does not work, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/10
- Self-contained Guix tarball,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/13
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/13
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/13
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Mark H Weaver, 2015/04/13
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/14
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Thompson, David, 2015/04/13
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/16
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/16
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/18
- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/19