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-*- mode: org -*-
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2012-11-18 15:22:00 +01:00
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GNU Guix is Nix[0] from Guile[1]!
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2012-06-01 23:29:55 +02:00
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Concretely, it allows Nix package management to be done entirely in
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Scheme. The goal is to investigate whether Scheme, and in particular
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the ability to define EDSLs, would allow it to fulfill the role of the
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Nix language.
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[0] http://nixos.org/nix/
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[1] http://gnu.org/software/guile/
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2012-06-08 23:13:33 +02:00
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* Hacking
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Guix currently depends on the following packages:
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2012-07-01 15:11:14 +02:00
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- [[http://gnu.org/software/guile/][GNU Guile 2.0.x]]
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- [[http://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]]
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2012-11-03 21:43:30 +01:00
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- [[http://gnupg.org/][GNU libgcrypt]]
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2012-11-03 21:11:02 +01:00
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Optionally, packages from Nixpkgs may be transparently reused from Guix.
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2012-10-05 00:19:29 +02:00
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For this to work, you need to have a checkout of the Nixpkgs repository;
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the `--with-nixpkgs' option allows you to let `configure' know where the
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Nixpkgs checkout is.
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2012-07-01 15:11:14 +02:00
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- [[http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/][Nixpkgs]]
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2012-10-05 00:19:29 +02:00
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When building Guix from a checkout, the following packages are also
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required:
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- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/][GNU Autoconf]]
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- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/][GNU Automake]]
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- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/][GNU Gettext]]
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The "autoreconf -vi" command can be used to generate the build system
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infrastructure; it reports an error if an inappropriate version of the
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above packages is being used.
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2012-06-08 23:13:33 +02:00
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* How It Works
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Guix does the high-level preparation of a /derivation/. A derivation is
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the promise of a build; it is stored as a text file under
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=/nix/store/xxx.drv=. The (guix derivations) module provides the
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`derivation' primitive, as well as higher-level wrappers such as
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`build-expression->derivation'.
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Guix does remote procedure calls (RPCs) to the Nix daemon (the
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=nix-worker --daemon= command), which in turn performs builds and
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accesses to the Nix store on its behalf. The RPCs are implemented in
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the (guix store) module.
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* Contact
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The repository is at <https://gitorious.org/guix/>.
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Please email <ludo@gnu.org> or <nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl>, or
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join #guile or #nixos on irc.freenode.net or `civodul'.
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2012-11-18 15:25:01 +01:00
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* Related software
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- [[http://nixos.org][Nix, Nixpkgs, and NixOS]], functional package manager and associated
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software distribution, are the inspiration of Guix
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- [[http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/][GNU Stow]] builds around the idea of one directory per prefix, and a
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symlink tree to create user environments
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- [[http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~arnej/store/storedoc_6.html][STORE]] shares the same idea
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- [[https://live.gnome.org/OSTree/][GNOME's OSTree]] allows bootable system images to be built from a
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specified set of packages
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- The [[http://www.gnu.org/s/gsrc/][GNU Source Release Collection]] (GSRC) is a user-land software
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distribution; unlike Guix, it relies on core tools available on the
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host system
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