Re: GSoC ideas

[Ludovic Courtès]

Diane Trout <address@hidden> skribis:

> I wrote a basic Debian recipe to build guix, create the build users,
> and install the systemd config file.
>
> https://github.com/detrout/debian-guix

Nice!

> Currently I've only split the guix package into the emacs components
> and everything else. I'd thought about splitting the daemon out into
> its own package, but I wasn't sure what the daemon depended on. 

What you describe sounds good enough.

> Currently its unlikely to go into Debian because Debian policy requires
> everything to be built from source, and currently the Guix build
> process downloads some bootstrap binaries.

Without a fully automated process to build .deb for several distros, I
don’t think we can offer to distribute .deb ourselves.  :-/

If you’re versed in Guix, you might be interested in writing a
derivation that runs Debian in QEMU and invokes the commands that build
.deb files, as Chris suggested.  That would be awesome.

Ludo’.