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<civodul>Hello Guixers!

<bubu^>hi, is there any distro centered around guix as a package manager ? or a tutorial how to merge guix with a current working OS

<Steap>bubu^: Guix is supposed to become a bootable GNU/Linux distribution

<Steap>bubu^: the README file explains how to use Guix on top of a GNU/Linux distribution

<bubu^>Steap, I don't remember it giving a way not to "pollute" the /

<bubu^>this will conflict with the other package manager

<bubu^>it doesn't seem "easy" for me yet, to setup both properly

<Steap>bubu^: well, it should be :)

<Steap>bubu^: by default, packages are installed in ~/.guix-profile/

<Steap>so you just have to set your PATH to ~/.guix-profile/bin:$PATH

<Steap>and voilà

<bubu^>which does not make it easy for use :) if some of the software are not in the "guix" environment

<bubu^>i just remember having lots of problems with path and things like that

<bubu^>to properly "merge" the OS in / and things from guix

<Steap>well, don't hesitate to talk about that on this chan

<Steap>or to send a bug report on bug-guix@gnu.org

<bubu^>ok thx :)

<bubu^>will come back next week end when I will re-try with this :)

<Steap>We'll be there :)

<civodul>'lo!

<Steap>Hello Guixer!

<civodul>c'mon, make it plural! ;-)

<Steap>Is "guix package --upgrade=''" the right command to use to upgrade my whole system ?

<civodul>yes

<civodul>well, it's --update=REGEXP, but the empty string is a valid regexp

<civodul>"the whole system" ;-)

<Steap>I tried --update="*"

<Steap>and it did not work

<Steap>which is weird, sicne user will probably assume "*" means "everything"

<Steap>WDYT?

<civodul>"*" is not a valid regexp

<civodul>should be ".*"

<civodul>which is equivalent to the empty string, i think

<Steap>well

<Steap>People are used to type ls *foo*

<civodul>aah, people...

<civodul>:-)

<civodul>i think regexps work better in this case

<civodul>than glob patterns, that is

<civodul>dunno

<Steap>shouldn't we allow --upgrade without an argument

<Steap>I think most users will just want to upgrade the whole thing

<civodul>yes, we should

<civodul>patch welcome :-)

<Digit>i do think using * convention is savvy. regexp is scary to loads of us noobs.

<civodul>hmm, ok

<Digit>or maybe we could start teaching regexp in schools... and courses to get all us adults caught up to speed too. ^_^

<civodul>:-)

<civodul>the untold story is that i don't have a glob pattern API around ;-)

<civodul>but at least the ability to use -u with no arguments should help

*Digit nods

<civodul>anyone tried the binary substituter BTW?

<Steap>civodul: I tried upgrading my packages, and I don't think it fetched binaries

<Steap>patch sent, btw

<civodul>thanks!

<civodul>you don't think it fetched binaries?

<Steap>well, it did compile quite a lot of stuff

<Steap>before failing miserably

<Steap>I just re-ran guix package -u, and it's downloading sources

<Steap>oh

<Steap>does it only work with 'build' and 'install" ?

<civodul>with everything

<civodul>but you must be running guix-daemon either through ./pre-inst-env or installed

<CaptainLex>Oh nice!

<CaptainLex>Hello Guix crowd

<civodul>hello!

<Steap>civodul: # ./pre-inst-env ./guix-daemon --build-users-group=guix-builder

<Steap>still, when I run "pakcage -u", it downloads quite a lot of source files

<Steap>are binaries available for all packages ?

<civodul>those you can see at http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master

<civodul>or /core-updates

<civodul>so that most of them

<CaptainLex>I'm not well-disposed to talk at this moment, but I've been on the mailing list, wishing there was an IRC room

<civodul>CaptainLex: well, there is, so you're welcome to have a chat whenever is a good moment for you :-)

<CaptainLex>I just popped on from my phone to verify that the room was on FN

<CaptainLex>Thanks :)

<CaptainLex>I'm the one who's been searching to get a Summer of Code project going

<Steap>oh, my patch is obviously broken

<Steap>I'll resend

<civodul>CaptainLex: ah ok :-)

*civodul -> bed

<civodul>g'night/day!

<Steap>CaptainLex: feel free to drop by when you have time to talk

<Steap>CaptainLex: I proposed the GSoC subject you're interested in

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