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Re: Guix on other distros: Gentoo. [You run Gentoo? Please help testing.


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: Re: Guix on other distros: Gentoo. [You run Gentoo? Please help testing.]
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 14:07:02 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01)

On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 10:01:39PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> TL;DR: Guix on Gentoo, need testers with moar isolated Gentoo
> VMs/systems. Don't blame me when it breaks your precious system, I said
> I needed testers.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Since Gentoo upstream decided to finally solve their very old #355355
> bug on ~20:00 UTC today, I take this opportunity to clean our Gentoo
> overlay from ebuilds we needed for guix so far and ask for potential
> testers.
> 
> For people interested in debugging and participation:
> 
> Guix is now available from within Gentoo for a while already, as a
> development (request for debugging help) package. With the inclusion of
> our collaborative overlay in Gentoo's in/official list of overlays,
> Guix on Gentoo is only 2 commands away in Gentoo and Gentoo
> based systems:
>   layman -a youbroketheinternet
>   emerge --ask sys-apps/guix
> 
> When you torsocks/torify this or all your connections go through tor,
> it should pick up one of 2 onionland instances this is available on,
> else it falls back to .is and .org
> 
> 
> It's not 100% finished yet (openrc service is not fully functional),
> please read the included TODO.org file in the overlay.
> 
> The overlay is also accessible from direct git checkouts, read the page
> on wiki.gentoo.org keyword search for Overlay youbroketheinternet or
> visit http://youbroketheinternet.org/#overlay or
> http://we.make.ritual.n0.is [section: CODE].

Thanks for leading this work! I don't have Gentoo experience, so I can't
offer much help, but I'm glad to see this being done.

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