Re: 🌎️ Install every Guix package 🌎️

[kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org>]

On 1/4/23 21:50, Eric Brown wrote:
> "jgart" <jgart@dismail.de> writes:
> 
>> Hi Guixers,
>>
>> How would you approach writing a script that installs every Guix package exhaustively for your current revision?
>>
>> I'm thinking of something similar to `all-packages` on PyPi but for every Guix package (the whole wide 🌎️).
>>
>> https://pypi.org/project/all-packages/
> 
> guix package -A | cut -f 1 | sort -u | xargs guix build --keep-going
> 
> can accomplish this. The `--keep-going' flag is useful in case a package
> does not build.
> 
> Occasionally, I will sandwich in a negated grep to
> exclude packages:
> 
> guix package -A | cut -f 1 | sort -u | grep -v "emacs-guile" | xargs guix build --keep-going
> 
> (Aside: emacs-guile-on-guix-system is the pinnacle of GNU, IMO but it failed to
> build--appearing to be abandoned--and was removed.)
> 
> One may also select just the packages they want, perhaps by using a
> scripting language such as python to make larger selections more
> convenient.
> 
> This can be combined with a substitute server and an offload build
> machine to make an on-site cache. One can choose whether to employ the
> Guix substitute servers if that would be beneficial.
> 
I just realized that this downloads all packages into the store, which 
not the same as installing all the packages into one or many profiles. I 
wonder what the minimum set of profiles to install all packages while 
avoiding collisions might be?