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a gentle intro to functional package management
with GNU Guix
Package managers are really useful.
But they can be so frustrating!
to functional package management with GNU Guix Package managers - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
to functional package management with GNU Guix Package managers - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
a gentle intro to functional package management with GNU Guix Package managers are really useful. But they can be so frustrating! Package managers are really useful. But they can be so frustrating! Version conflicts Old software
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Package managers are really useful.
But they can be so frustrating!
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Version conflicts Old software Suspenseful upgrades The only way is forward Changes affect all users Trust?
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No package management
You are on your own. EPEL, PPAs, AUR... more conflicts, more to trust Relocatable rpm, deb, PKGBUILD, ... Generate system packages with e.g. fpm Packaging is hard, let’s take snapshots. gem, cabal, pip, cpan, npm: more packages, less management
Giving up Application-specific packaging Build your own system package Meta package managers External repos
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Functional packaging
headers sources build tools libraries ...
cabba9e-emacs-24.5/ bin emacs lib ...
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Functional packaging
cabba9e-emacs-24.5/ bin emacs lib ... dedbeef-emacs-24.5/ bin emacs lib ...
Different inputs? Different outputs. Same inputs? Same output!
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GNU Guix
Guix client
(guix packages) (guix store)
RPCs Build daemon Isolated build processes
chroot with declared inputs
Store
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/home/rekado/.guix-profile /var/guix/... guix-profile 42 /gnu/store hscq14x...-profile bin samtools bowtie2 rhrdst11m...-samtools-1.2 bin samtools include lud0v1c...-bowtie-2.2.4 bin bowtie2
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/home/rekado/.guix-profile /var/guix/... guix-profile 42 43 /gnu/store hscq14x...-profile bin samtools bowtie2 rhrdst11m...-samtools-1.2 bin samtools include lud0v1c...-bowtie-2.2.4 bin bowtie2 z3braf1sh...-profile bin samtools
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#guix on irc.freenode.net http://gnu.org/s/guix
rekado@elephly.net