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Resent-From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-guix@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 08:19:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41037 X-GNU-PR-Package: guix X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: Bruno Haible Received: via spool by 41037-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41037.15885803266622 (code B ref 41037); Mon, 04 May 2020 08:19:01 +0000 Received: (at 41037) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 May 2020 08:18:46 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58898 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jVWJE-0001id-Br for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 04:18:46 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35124) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jVWJC-0001iR-PH for 41037@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2020 04:18:39 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52699) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jVWJ7-0003Fi-3V; Mon, 04 May 2020 04:18:33 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=51312 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jVWJ6-0001jQ-Kj; Mon, 04 May 2020 04:18:32 -0400 From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= References: <1614037.PG1mooiXeX@omega> <87pnbkvio0.fsf@gnu.org> <10121112.yT0VcRYgiK@omega> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 16 =?UTF-8?Q?Flor=C3=A9al?= an 228 de la =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 10:18:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: <10121112.yT0VcRYgiK@omega> (Bruno Haible's message of "Sun, 03 May 2020 23:13:46 +0200") Message-ID: <87v9lct8o9.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) X-BeenThere: bug-guix@gnu.org List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: 41037@debbugs.gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" X-Scanner: scn0 X-Spam-Score: 5.42 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 2001:470:142::17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Scan-Result: default: False [5.42 / 13.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; GENERIC_REPUTATION(0.00)[-0.49436044251144]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(0.00)[+ip6:2001:470:142::/48:c]; IP_REPUTATION_HAM(0.00)[asn: 22989(0.14), country: US(-0.00), ip: 2001:470:142::17(-0.49)]; DWL_DNSWL_FAIL(0.00)[2001:470:142::17:server fail]; MX_GOOD(-0.50)[cached: eggs.gnu.org]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MAILLIST(-0.20)[mailman]; FORGED_RECIPIENTS_MAILLIST(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_FAIL(0.00)[2001:470:142::17:server fail]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; R_MIXED_CHARSET(0.63)[subject]; ASN(0.00)[asn:22989, ipnet:2001:470:142::/48, country:US]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; TAGGED_FROM(0.00)[larch=yhetil.org]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RSPAMD_URIBL(4.50)[clisp.org:email]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[ludo@gnu.org,bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; URIBL_BLOCKED(0.00)[gnu.org:url,clisp.org:email]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[gnu.org]; HAS_LIST_UNSUB(-0.01)[]; BAD_REP_POLICIES(0.10)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_SEVEN(0.00)[9]; FORGED_SENDER_MAILLIST(0.00)[] X-TUID: rN+rM47Ztb2U Hi, Bruno Haible skribis: >> It=E2=80=99s in the glibc package: >>=20 >> ls $(guix build glibc | grep '[0-9]$')/lib >>=20 >> What=E2=80=99s your use case? > > So, the consequence is that a Guix user cannot send an executable > to another Guix user and expect it to be runnable on the other machine. True (but that=E2=80=99s generally the case on GNU/Linux and the reason why things like Flatpak were built.) To send an executable to another Guix machine, one would use =E2=80=98guix copy=E2=80=99: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-copy.html But more generally, people would share =E2=80=9Cchannels=E2=80=9D containin= g complete build-from-source instructions, along with =E2=80=9Csubstitutes=E2=80=9D (p= re-built binaries): https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Channels.html https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Substitutes.html HTH, Ludo=E2=80=99.