From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: guixsd offline installation media Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 21:11:38 +0100 Message-ID: <20151218201138.GA30822@thebird.nl> References: <20151216044236.GA19496@thebird.nl> <20151216045703.GA19562@thebird.nl> <87vb7wg0ub.fsf@gnu.org> <20151218034054.GA27521@thebird.nl> <87vb7vhcxk.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33919) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aA1OF-0003HC-Vx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2015 15:12:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aA1OC-0000tE-OG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2015 15:12:35 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87vb7vhcxk.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Dika Setya Prayogi Hi Mark, On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:41:27PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Pjotr Prins writes: > > > If it is technically feasibly it would be a great feature to go back > > in time without resorting to using a checkout of the guix source tree > > :) > > I'm not sure why using a git checkout should be considered an > unfortunate thing to have to resort to. To my mind, it is precisely the > right tool for the job, and far more flexible and efficient than using > "guix pull". It is the way I've been using 'guix' from the beginning. > I recommend giving it a try some time :) I use git *all* the time. No issue with that. I don't think we can ask that from most users. We are talking reproducible deployment here. Pj.