[borgbackup] [PATCH 0/1] Borg 0.25 packaged for Guix

[Leo Famulari]

One more thing that I forgot to mention: this package definition does
not run
the tests. I need to fix that, especially because I get intermittent
FUSE errors
with `borg mount`. And when those errors happen, I can reproduce them
with
`attic mount`.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015, at 21:12, Leo Famulari wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a package definition of Borg 0.25 for the Guix package manager
> [1].
> 
> I have not submitted this patch to Guix yet because I am wary of
> including a
> rapidly changing backup program into an operating system's official
> repositories.  I appreciate the motivations for forking from Attic and I
> look
> forward to the improvements being developed in Borg but in the meantime I
> prefer my backup system to be rather boring. However, I am not sure if
> Borg is
> actually unstable or not. I would like some advice on this matter.
> 
> Nevertheless, I have found Guix to be a great way to install and manage
> software on my systems. It offers a lot of improvements to established
> package
> managers like apt and yum. It also provides a much-needed replacement for
> the 
> dismal experience of language-specific package managers. I have been
> watching
> Borg's progress from afar because I am not interested in installing,
> learning,
> and maintaining another package manager just for Python programs.
> 
> This package is not yet included in the official Guix repos, but if you
> are
> using Guix and have a working development environment, you can apply the
> patch
> like so from the root of your Guix source tree:
> $ patch -p1 < 0001-gnu-Add-Borg-backup-program.patch
> 
> Then, you can install it for testing and use. Please note that this might
> involve building lz4 from source, and that will take a while due to lz4's
> test
> suite.
> $ guix environment guix
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix package --install borg
> 
> Now that I have this package definition, I can start testing different
> versions
> of Borg easily.
> 
> I hope that some will find this patch useful, and also that some will
> have a
> nice introduction to Guix.
> 
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
> Guix is a package manager (and operating system called GuixSD) based on
> the Nix 
> package manager. It uses Guile Scheme instead of the Nix DSL and is
> focused on
> free software. You can run it on top of another Linux distribution
> without
> conflicting or interacting with that distribution's package management.
> 
> Leo Famulari (1):
>   gnu: Add Borg backup program.
> 
>  gnu/packages/backup.scm | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)
> 
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