[Nix-dev] Is there a definite list of pre-reqs for nix for RPMs

[Milind Parikh]

"Using nix-store --export and nix-store --import, so that you can
install nix on machines running centos (Or any other Linux distro that
runs more current upstream packages) First and then just distribute
the application(s)?
Is that what you mean by portable applications? Are you interested in
using nix to distribute binaries in a portable way?"

In one word : yes

I am interested in assuring someone that when postgres is dropped on a
server (linux), it just will work. Of course, postgres is a metaphor.

Secondly, from security audit perspective, when libc has to be updated, all
packages will have the correct references to libc. Once again, package (as
is libc) is a metaphor; qa still has to be done; but there is simply no
better way of building. If it does not work (libc upgrade), there can be
nothing else to be done than to roll back or accept bugs.

It seems, that the first step in this, is to ensure that nix will install
and operate on a given distro (kind of the bootstrapping process for the
problem space of nix). Hence the question.




On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Tony White <tonywhite100 at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 2009/7/20 Milind Parikh <milindparikh at gmail.com>:
> > "RPM packages of Nix can be downloaded from http://nixos.org/. These
> RPMs
> > should work for most fairly recent releases of SuSE and Red Hat Linux.
> They
> > have been known to work work on SuSE Linux 8.1 and 9.0, and Red Hat 9.0.
> In
> > fact, it should work on any RPM-based Linux distribution based on glibc
> 2.3
> > or later."
> >
> >
> > Doesn't work on centos 5.3 until you upgrade llibstdc++ to the latest
> > version (that is not even available in yum repos).
> >
> > My question, though , is more general. The use case is "portable
> > applications" (though not under nixox).
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > -- Milind
> >
> >
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>
> Hi Milind,
> Do you want to do something like this :
>
> http://hydra.nixos.org/build/47813/download/1/manual/#sec-sharing-packages
>
> Using nix-store --export and nix-store --import, so that you can
> install nix on machines running centos (Or any other Linux distro that
> runs more current upstream packages) First and then just distribute
> the application(s)?
> Is that what you mean by portable applications? Are you interested in
> using nix to distribute binaries in a portable way?
>
> Sorry if I misunderstand.
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
>
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