The Future of Shipping Software on Ubuntu

Re:The Future of Shipping Software on Ubuntu by fractalb on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:43AM (#10278060)

Thanks for the link. A good writeup on Nix and Snappy. I have a doubt here. Does Nix support deb packages? Snappy is said to be built on deb package management and not a replacement. Can someone shed some light on this?

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Re:The Future of Shipping Software on Ubuntu by davexunit on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:43AM (#10278063)

Nix has its own packaging format. Debs (and other formats) are insufficient for functional package management. Packages are code in Nix and Guix.

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Re:The Future of Shipping Software on Ubuntu by dhj on Friday September 25, 2015 @10:06AM (#10278197)

Sounds like a security nightmare.

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Re:The Future of Shipping Software on Ubuntu by kryptiskt on Friday September 25, 2015 @10:13AM (#10278251)

How so? A Debian package can run arbitrary code as root on install. A Nix script can hardly be unsafer than that.

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Re:The Future of Shipping Software on Ubuntu by dhj on Friday September 25, 2015 @10:17AM (#10278268)

Ah. Good point. I expected dpkg to handle data blobs that were allowed to be moved into specific locations. I guess that would make post install configs impossible.

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