From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Having a Guix archive on the download page?
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 14:17:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180707121712.7mduwpoesyyeucqj@thebird.nl> (raw)
Is it an idea to also have a current Guix archive on the download
page? Or at least a link to one?
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/
Ever so often I need to rescue a running Guix system which won't run
guix pull and even a build-from-source quickly. Being able to do
guix archive --import < guix-latest.nar
or something similar would be rather convenient.
Now I am packing my own archive from a VM because my systems won't
build a recent tree and guix pull requires guile-git which won't build
in turn. It is one of those days that I look to either pack guix or
have a long slog of building just to get going again...
With a downloadable archive, and with the recent improvement of guix
pull, I think anyone can rescue quickly any guix daemon and build
system.
The key term is: convenience.
Pj.
next reply other threads:[~2018-07-07 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-07 12:17 Pjotr Prins [this message]
2018-07-08 12:28 ` guix pull le-certs problem - formerly: Having a Guix archive Pjotr Prins
2018-07-08 12:34 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-07-08 16:31 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-07-08 19:47 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-07-11 12:55 ` Having a Guix archive on the download page? Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-11 16:13 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-07-19 14:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-20 20:21 ` EuAndreh
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