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Re:GNU Guix 0.8 released by foobarqux on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @12:05PM (#8624857)
How easy is it to build your own packages from, say, the tip of the master branch of github repository? How automated is building the dependencies?

Building packages on Debian like systems is a huge pain. Arch is much better but I need Debian/Ubuntu-like reliability.

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Re:GNU Guix 0.8 released by Doji on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @12:32PM (#8625029)
Very easy.

    git clone git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git
    cd nixpkgs
    nix-build -A packagename
Building the dependencies is completely automated. For more information, see the nixpkgs contributor's guide: http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/

Note that the above command will simply download cached binaries where they are available, but if you make any changes to the build scripts nix will notice rebuild locally instead. This gives you the benefits of both source based and binary based package managers.

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Re:GNU Guix 0.8 released by foobarqux on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @12:58PM (#8625187)
Is there no Ubuntu 14.10 nix package?
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