Hi Aniket, Il giorno gio 29 ott 2020 alle ore 17:35 Aniket Patil < aniket112.pa...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> Hi, > There are GNU/Linux distros which are Debian-based or fedora(Redhat) based > etc. What I know to my knowledge is GNU packages are .tar packages with > .deb and .rpm file format, am I right? > > Ehm, I think you're not right, no Software packages don't need to be expressed as files (.deb, .tar, .rmp or any other format) That's a convention, not a necessity mainstream Linux distributions adopt such a convention Others do not As an analogy, If you say that packages are .deb files, it's as if you're saying that a document is the paper it's printed on So what would be the relationship between a file representing such document and the papers that can be printed by it ? Some will say that the hand signed paper is "the document" Others will say that the LibreOffice file is the document What I am wondering about how guix > makes it happen? I mean are we bypassing the process of making the package > in .deb and .rpm format and releasing it, Guix doesn't release .deb or .rpm files for packages, no but that's not "bypassing" As long as distributing the file for a document is not bypassing the distribution of printed copies > or what exactly are we doing? To > my knowledge, we are building from source code as we can see in the recipe. > So that means we are bypassing the process of making packages explicitly > for the distro, aren't we? > Guix is ensuring that that the binary bits belonging to a package (produced by compilig its source code) it runs are the same on everymachine that built the source with the same Guix recipe And that's as an explicit producton of packages as I can think of The idea that if there are no .deb files than the process is not explicit is, in my opinion, not correct > Where can I learn more about this? I am going through guix manual but I > don't know which chapter to look for. Also, where can I learn more about > packaging software on GNU/Linux distribution? Like .deb or .rpm > The manual doesn't mention files and file formats because it doesn't assume that software packages and files are identified Binary files are a support, as paper id for documents But the packages exist independently of supports (as documents do) Hope this helps
