[Nix-dev] Providing Debian, Arch etc. packages counterproductive?

[Adrien Devresse]

An other point to consider is the integration aspect.

Nix requires a system install in a shared environment. The daemon needs
to be setup properly, group created, etc....
In most companies, the sysadmin will simply refuse to install on any
existing  shared system anything which is not packaged properly, and for
very good reasons.

Not providing platform specific packages will very likely slow down the
adoption of Nix in professional environment for such reasons.
I agree the platform specific packages have their own issues, but from
an administration point of view, they are needed.


Adrien



Le 23/09/2015 00:50, Thomas Hunger a écrit :
> The deb can be inspected with "dpkg -c". It contains all the nix-*
> commands, man pages, some perl, headers and some basic nix library
> functions. What's missing is a postinst script that setting up the
> things according to [1] (probably needs updating).
>
> On reflection platform specific packages would be useful to work
> around issues like [2] which one of my friends hit today. And as
> Vladimir says for the multi-user setup with the daemon. I'm not sure I
> have the energy to go around and fix all the packages but maybe debian
> and arch would be a good start.
>
> ~
>
> [1]
> https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_Nix_on_Debian
>
> [2]
> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/599
>
>
> On 22 September 2015 at 22:31, Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com
> <mailto:vcunat at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 09/22/2015 10:03 PM, zimbatm wrote:
>     > On the other end, it would be nice if installing nix was just a
>     > matter of running `curl -L
>     > https://nixos.org/nix-current/$(uname)-$(arch).tar.bz2
>     <https://nixos.org/nix-current/$%28uname%29-$%28arch%29.tar.bz2> |
>     tar xa -C
>     > /nix && ln -s /nix/bin/nix-env /usr/local/bin` and then setup the
>     > profile.
>
>     I think the nix daemon complicates things a bit, as you need to
>     plug it
>     into the host OS services.
>
>     Vladimir
>
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