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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:04:51 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 04:44:30PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>=20
> Marco van Zwetselaar <zwets@zwets.com> writes:
>=20
> > In fact, what I am really looking for is a --substitute-urls option f=
or=20
> > 'guix pull', or a way to separate the pull and the subsequent build, =
so=20
> > that I can make it connect to a 'guix publish'-ing server.
>=20
> Instead of =E2=80=9Cguix pull=E2=80=9D may I suggest using git instead?=
  Especially,
> when you have multiple machines on which Guix should run, it may make
> sense to just clone the Guix git repository once from the Internet,
> clone it to the other machines via local network, and then update once
> in a while via =E2=80=9Cgit pull=E2=80=9D (not =E2=80=9Cguix pull=E2=80=
=9D).
>=20
> You can create a link =E2=80=9C~/.config/guix/latest=E2=80=9D pointing =
to, say,
> =E2=80=9C~/dev/guix=E2=80=9D (if that=E2=80=99s the directory holding t=
he cloned repository).
>=20
> When you update with =E2=80=9Cgit pull=E2=80=9D you=E2=80=99ll only hav=
e to download recent
> changes, not the whole Guix code.
>=20
> Does this make sense?
>=20
> ~~ Ricardo

This has the additional benefit of 'fixating' the dependencies and
having some control over status of packages. This is why we have a
gn-stable checkout of guix which is shared among deployments. And it
can save a lot of downloads.=20

Pj.
--=20