Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly

2023-10-17 Thread Josh Marshall
Looks like https://dumps.repology.org/ provides sufficient data to have this kind of mapping, provided there is some leg work to map distros to their multiple respective repositories. On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 4:45 PM Josh Marshall wrote: > > One thing which could be done is to use https://repology

Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly

2023-10-13 Thread Josh Marshall
One thing which could be done is to use https://repology.org/ to map currently installed packages from detected package managers to available packages in Guix and inform the user about missing packages. That could help. On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 9:18 AM Josh Marshall wrote: > > Very helpful! > > On

Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly

2023-10-11 Thread Josh Marshall
Very helpful! On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, 6:37 AM Simon Tournier wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 03 Oct 2023 at 23:49, Josh Marshall < > joshua.r.marshall.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have a base minimal system of Ubuntu with Guix and Nix tacked on. I > > would like to move everything over to Guix with Ni

Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly

2023-10-11 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Tue, 03 Oct 2023 at 23:49, Josh Marshall wrote: > I have a base minimal system of Ubuntu with Guix and Nix tacked on. I > would like to move everything over to Guix with Nix tacked on. Is > there a guide on how to do this? To me knowledge, no. Well, IMHO, the path forward would be to

Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly

2023-10-07 Thread wolf
On 2023-10-07 15:55:29 -0400, Josh Marshall wrote: > I'm not looking to live that much on the edge! I personally did the conversion by backing the drive to a portable USB disk, doing clean install and copying the files back. That is what will most likely work. In place conversion are possible (I

Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly

2023-10-07 Thread Josh Marshall
I'm not looking to live that much on the edge! On Sat, Oct 7, 2023, 11:17 AM wrote: > October 3, 2023 11:51 PM, "Josh Marshall" < > joshua.r.marshall.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have a base minimal system of Ubuntu with Guix and Nix tacked on. I > > would like to move everything over to Guix

Re: Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly

2023-10-07 Thread jbranso
October 3, 2023 11:51 PM, "Josh Marshall" wrote: > I have a base minimal system of Ubuntu with Guix and Nix tacked on. I > would like to move everything over to Guix with Nix tacked on. Is > there a guide on how to do this? Well, the easiest (and possibly dangerous way) to do this, would be to

Is there a post or blog on how to convert from a distro to guix losslessly

2023-10-03 Thread Josh Marshall
I have a base minimal system of Ubuntu with Guix and Nix tacked on. I would like to move everything over to Guix with Nix tacked on. Is there a guide on how to do this?