On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:36:44PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> I have a working Ruby installation at > >> > >> > >> https://gitorious.org/guix/pjotrps-guix/source/61d21fad72d49cbbf0135b5ac7362bb0f64167fa:gnu/packages/ruby.scm > >> > >> This is my first GUIX package (I have written Nix packages before), so > >> please have a look. > > > > Overall looks good to me! A couple of comments: > > Did you have a chance to look at it?
I am still in bootstrap mode on an aging CenOS6 compute cluster, so I am not in package writing mode. I need to be able to install Nix/Guix without root. I work in short stretches on the problem (I wish it was easier! I tried bootstrapping Guix, but failed). At this point I got Nix 1.6.1 working with this script https://github.com/pjotrp/nix-no-root/blob/master/scripts/nix-bootstrap-home.sh, which is derived from the Nix wiki. Now, I need to patch Nix to work with PAM/LDAP (that fix is in 1.7, but that does source tree does not compile with my script, I tried that yesterday), next I need to upgrade the Guix package in Nix (it is at 0.3) and then I can continue playing with packages. The Ruby package needs work too because we need a sane way to handle gems. I need to understand the way Nix does it and what Guix does with Python. The way it is done now in Nix looks fairly complex. I don't think we want automated gem processing. Pj.
