This project started out as an experiment to provide reproducible package distribution for ipdb packages but then evolved into full BigchainDB node deployment package with bells and whistles. Further development of this project is going to be here: https://github.com/ipdb/bigchaindb-guix .
This repository provides package definitions for bigchaindb, tendermint and their dependencies. There is also a cuirass ci specification and build procedure for building bigchaindb and tendermint-bin packages.
It is still work in progress. Tendermint provided as precompiled binary at the moment. Some package definitions might migrate to guix repository itself in the future which will not affect general workflow.
GNU Guix is a transactional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and respects the user's freedom.
In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language. GuixSD offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management, and is highly customizable and hackable.
GuixSD can be used on an i686, x86_64 and armv7 machines. It is also possible to use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and aarch64.