From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Having a Guix archive on the download page? Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 14:17:12 +0200 Message-ID: <20180707121712.7mduwpoesyyeucqj@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55255) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbm9N-0007NV-Lt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 08:17:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbm9K-0008Es-I6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 08:17:17 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([94.142.245.5]:35226) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbm9K-0008Dp-Aq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 08:17:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline 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" To: guix-devel 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.