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| author | Samuel Hodgkins <samuel.hodgkins@sky.com> |
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| date | Wed, 25 Oct 2017 03:55:34 +0100 |
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| 1 [[!meta title="Guix-based ikiwiki" author="samis"]] | 1 [[!meta title="Guix-based ikiwiki" author="samis"]] |
| 2 [[!tag tech linux guix ikiwiki]] | 2 [[!tag tech linux guix ikiwiki]] |
| 3 This site very obviously uses [ikiwiki](https://ikiwiki.info) both as a static wiki compiler but also for the few dynamic elements present. It's written in perl, and has a large number of Perl module dependencies. Nearly all of these do not care about the versions of much else, so they'll just work after you install them. Unfortunately, I discovered the Ikiwiki's image functionality uses the PerlMagick module, which does indeed depend on ImageMagick - in fact, it depended on ImageMagick 6.x. It wasn't in Alpine's package repositories for my version (they only )and installing it by hand did not work, failing with an error. I even tried replacing the distro's ImageMagick with my own that included perl support, but to no avail. | 3 This site very obviously uses [ikiwiki](https://ikiwiki.info) both as a static wiki compiler but also for the few dynamic elements present. It's written in perl, and has a large number of Perl module dependencies. Nearly all of these do not care about the versions of much else, so they'll just work after you install them. Unfortunately, I discovered the Ikiwiki's image functionality uses the PerlMagick module, which does indeed depend on ImageMagick - in fact, it depended on ImageMagick 6.x. It wasn't in Alpine's package repositories for my version (they only had 7.x ) and installing it by hand did not work, failing with an error. I even tried replacing the distro's ImageMagick with my own that included perl support, but to no avail. |
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| 5 # Enter Nix (and Guix) | 5 # Enter Nix (and Guix) |
| 6 At this time I had previously encountered Nix and Guix, both of which offer a substantially different approach to package management compared with conventional systems (such as regular distro package managers but others as well). One of their offered features is isolation: You can use a package (or a version of a package) without that extending to other packages or the system as a whole. There's other useful features that drop out of their model but this is the key one in this context. | 6 At this time I had previously encountered Nix and Guix, both of which offer a substantially different approach to package management compared with conventional systems (such as regular distro package managers but others as well). One of their offered features is isolation: You can use a package (or a version of a package) without that extending to other packages or the system as a whole. There's other useful features that drop out of their model but this is the key one in this context. |
| 7 | 7 |
| 8 ## Nix | 8 ## Nix |