From 91b714be7df2b50921f119585f5b7b629ad592a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:16:10 +0100 Subject: Mention GNU Guix in project ideas. --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn | 20 ++++++++++++-------- community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'community') diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn index 23304f6b..d80efe37 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -36,15 +36,19 @@ sum of packages installed at a certain moment; it doesn't matter how this state came about. There are no global databases of any kind. (Some things might require caching for better performance, but this must happen transparently.) -The core of this approach is formed by [[hurd/translator/stowfs]], which -creates a traditional Unix directory structure from all the files in the -individual package directories. But this only handles the lowest level of -package management. Additional mechanisms are necessary to handle stuff like -dependencies on other packages. +The core of this approach is formed by [[hurd/translator/stowfs]]. +[Guix](http://www.gnu.org/software/guix), GNU's package manager, +installs each package in its own directory. Each user has a +*profile*, which is the union of some of these packages. On +GNU/Linux, this union is implemented as a symlink tree; on GNU/Hurd, +*stowfs* would offer a more elegant solution. Stowfs creates a traditional +Unix directory structure from all the files in the individual package +directories. This handles the lowest level of package +management. -The goal of this task is to create these mechanisms. +The goal of this task is to exploit Hurd features in GNU Guix. -Possible mentors: Ben Asselstine (bing) +Possible mentors: Ludovic Courtès, Ben Asselstine (bing) Exercise: Make some improvement to any of the existing Hurd translators. Especially those in [hurdextras](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/) are often diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn index d9f1a9e1..13cc6cd1 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ software packages, GNU/Linux distributions usually come with a package manager, which keeps track of all files upon installation/removal in some kind of central database. -An alternative approach is the one implemented by GNU Stow: each package is +An alternative approach is the one implemented by GNU Stow and GNU Guix: each package is actually installed in a private directory tree. The actual standard directory structure is then created by collecting the individual files from all the packages, and presenting them in the common `/bin`, `/lib`, etc. locations. -While the normal Stow package (for traditional UNIX systems) uses symlinks to +While the normal Stow or Guix package (for traditional UNIX systems) uses symlinks to the actual files, updated on installation/deinstallation events, the Hurd [[hurd/translator]] mechanism allows a much more elegant solution: [[hurd/translator/stowfs]] (which is actually a special mode of -- cgit v1.2.3