From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org,Kurt I <gitlabcanada@runbox.com>
Subject: Re: Guix Deploy Hacking
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 07:18:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7815132B-430B-46B0-961D-9FA811EDD0D9@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4f0d6504ccd7137596eb1a215429c09ef21a610.camel@runbox.com>
Le 12 octobre 2020 22:08:44 GMT-04:00, Kurt I <gitlabcanada@runbox.com> a écrit :
>Greetings,
>
>I am attempting to use "Guix Deploy" as a replacement for Norton
>Ghost/SCCM, imaging type software.
>
>There are 2 tasks I'm working on:
>
>1) Using deploy to update a machine
> - I don't understand the point of pushing packages to a system
>that disappear if you do a "guix system reconfigure" on that machine.
>
>To deal with this I have this code in my deploy file:
>
>;; This will locate where the system config file is
>(define this-file
> (local-file (basename (assoc-ref (current-source-location) 'filename)
> "config.scm")))
>
>;; This replaces or creates a new system config file
> (simple-service 'config-file etc-service-type
> `(("lr.scm" ,this-file)))
>
>Perhaps an argument to "Guix Deploy" to optionally save the file you
>are pushing on the remote machine could be added?
This was not the case with 1.1.0, but now we register the file that generated your system as /run/current-system/config.scm, with provenance information.
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