Re: A second /gnu/store? Cuirass/guix-daemon with a different partition.

2023-07-15 Thread Wojtek Kosior via
> Does anyone have any insight in how I could spin a Cuirass service > or guix-daemon that can be made to use an independent “/gnu/store” > located in another drive/partition? Disclaimer: I've never done anything with Cuirass and I know more or less nothing about how it works. I'd try running it

A second /gnu/store? Cuirass/guix-daemon with a different partition.

2023-07-15 Thread Bruno Victal
Hi, I'd like to give Cuirass a try as it seems to be a better way to deal with package rebuilds and it isn't very practical to handle these in the same computer I'm using to hack on Guix. 🙂 I have a headless computer that's also running Guix and it has the following storage layout: [SSD] → / /g

Re: Packaging a rust program with a lot of crates

2023-07-15 Thread Wojtek Kosior via
> > There might be some misunderstanding here. Guix does allow > > 1. for multiple versions of the same package to coexist > > 2. and for multiple versions of the same package to share most of the > >packaging code via inheritance. > > However, the possibility 1. is only exercised for some stra

Re: Packaging a rust program with a lot of crates

2023-07-15 Thread Paul Collignan
Le Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 04:06:56PM +0200, Wojtek Kosior a écrit : > Hi Paul! > > That's cool! Please keep in mind, tho that Guix is not an "easy" distro > for novice users. Be ready to spend even more time learning stuff :) Hi, thank you for your answer. > This way the Guix committers will see

Re: Packaging a rust program with a lot of crates

2023-07-15 Thread Wojtek Kosior via
Hi Paul! > I'm not a computer scientist at all. At best you could call me a > GNU/Linux end user for some time, but only to consume, never to > produce. I would like to contribute a little, and for that I want to > start with guix. That's cool! Please keep in mind, tho that Guix is not an "easy"

Packaging a rust program with a lot of crates

2023-07-15 Thread Paul Collignan
Hi, First of all I would like to apologize if the answers to my questions are obvious. This is a first for me in many areas. First mailing list, first time I want to contribute to a free project, first time I have to write something in a programming language, first time I use git, etc. I'm not