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Re: Self-contained Guix tarball
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Pjotr Prins |
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Re: Self-contained Guix tarball |
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Thu, 16 Apr 2015 07:33:55 +0200 |
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Great :). I would make it a little clearer that this is
'bootstrapping' and hype it a little more that now there is no reason
NOT to install Guix. Only 100Mb on your HDD.
The warning about overwriting a Guix installation should be earlier.
Maybe point out that if you want to move a package with dependencies
see another part of the documentation.
BTW when Nix decided to go for a meta-database they lost something. I
know it has good reasons (performance mostly) but it took away the
self-containedness of packages. It would be nice just to be able to
copy/del packages and rebuild the meta information. Do we have
something like that?
Pj.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:31:09PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I???ve documented installation from the binary tarball (which I plan to
> distribute for the next release) in commit 09722b1. Please let me know
> what you think.
>
> Ludo???.
>
>
> 2.1 Binary Installation
> =======================
>
> This section describes how to install Guix on an arbitrary system from a
> self-contained tarball providing binaries for Guix and for all its
> dependencies. This is often quicker than installing from source, which
> is described in the next sections. The only requirement is to have
> GNU tar and Xz.
>
> Installing goes along these lines:
>
> 1. Download the binary tarball from
> ???ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.2.SYSTEM.tar.xz???(1),
> where SYSTEM is ???x86_64-linux??? for an ???x86_64??? machine already
> running the kernel Linux, and so on.
>
> 2. As ???root???, run:
>
> # cd /
> # tar xf guix-binary-0.8.2.SYSTEM.tar.xz
>
> This creates ???/gnu/store??? (*note The Store::), ???/var/guix???, and
> ???/root/.guix-profile???. ???/root/.guix-profile??? is a ready-to-use
> profile for ???root??? where Guix is installed.
>
> 3. Setup the daemon as explained below (*note Setting Up the
> Daemon::), and run it:
>
> # /root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon
> --build-users-group=guix-builder
>
> 4. Make the ???guix??? command available to other users on the machine,
> for instance with:
>
> # mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
> # cd /usr/local/bin
> # ln -s /root/.guix-profile/bin/guix
>
> And that???s it!
>
> There are two things to note. First, don???t unpack the tarball on a
> working Guix system since that would overwrite its own essential files.
> Second, the ???guix??? package must remain available in ???root??????s
> profile, or
> it would become subject to garbage collection???in which case you would
> find yourself badly handicapped by the lack of the ???guix??? command.
>
> The tarball in question can be (re)produced simply by running the
> following command in the Guix source tree:
>
> make guix-binary.SYSTEM.tar.xz
>
> ---------- Footnotes ----------
>
> (1) As usual, make sure to download the associated ???.sig??? file and to
> verify the authenticity of the tarball against it!
>
--
- Re: Copying whole /gnu/store from USB does not work (SOLVED), (continued)
- Self-contained Guix tarball, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/04/12
- 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,
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- Re: Self-contained Guix tarball, Pjotr Prins, 2015/04/21
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