Re: share guix and its store between distributions

2023-10-12 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 17:56, Emmanuel Beffara wrote: > Some guix packages behave differently between Guix system and Debian, I will > investigate those on occasion. For instance, the bower mail reader from Guix > has some issues with Unicode when run in Debian and I don't understand why > y

Re: share guix and its store between distributions

2023-10-11 Thread Emmanuel Beffara
De Simon Tournier le 11/10/2023 à 14:45: > Just to mention that I do not know what happens with the store database > if you run concurrently two guix-daemon. > > For your use-case, it should be ok, though. :-) Since you will run only > one guix-daemon at one time. Indeed, I am not bold enough to

Re: share guix and its store between distributions

2023-10-11 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Mon, 09 Oct 2023 at 10:43, Emmanuel Beffara wrote: >> > Is there a way to share Guix and its store between several distributions? >> > [...] >> >> It looks like you already have the right idea. You'd have to share /gnu >> and /var/guix between the two distributions, as well as have the s

Re: share guix and its store between distributions

2023-10-09 Thread Emmanuel Beffara
Hello, Thanks for the feedback. De Efraim Flashner le 08/10/2023 à 09:03: > > Is there a way to share Guix and its store between several distributions? > > [...] > > It looks like you already have the right idea. You'd have to share /gnu > and /var/guix between the two distributions, as well as

Re: share guix and its store between distributions

2023-10-08 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 05:03:49PM +0200, Emmanuel Beffara wrote: > Hello Guix, > > Is there a way to share Guix and its store between several distributions? > > My situation is that I have a Guix system installed as my main system, but I > would like to install another distribution on the same m

Re: share guix and its store between distributions

2023-10-05 Thread Daniel Littlewood
Hi Emmanuel, Do you expect to share exactly the same packages in Debian vs guix, or just an overlapping subset? I assume that if the packages are the same, and they're building the same versions, then the hash identifying them should be the same, and guix should refrain from rebuilding the packag

Re: share guix and its store between distributions

2023-10-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Emmanual, On Thu, Oct 05 2023, Emmanuel Beffara wrote: > Is there a proper way to make that work? Or is it a bad idea? I used Debian for twenty-five years and switched to GNU Guix eighteen months ago. I see no reason to run both, but I also like being at the frontier. Why do you need Debian?

share guix and its store between distributions

2023-10-05 Thread Emmanuel Beffara
Hello Guix, Is there a way to share Guix and its store between several distributions? My situation is that I have a Guix system installed as my main system, but I would like to install another distribution on the same machine (a current Debian, specifically) and use Guix as a package manager ther