From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: guix pack file enumerator?
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 10:53:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z5f6z1a.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
Hi Guix,
“guix pack” is great for deployment of applications to servers that
don’t have Guix. For a project I have a “deploy” target in my Makefile
that essentially does this:
cat $(shell guix pack -RR -e '(load "guix.scm")' -S /bin=bin) | ssh remote-server "tar xvzf - -C /where/i/want/it"
This is fine for small deployments, but it’s a little annoying that it
transfer *all* the files, even those that haven’t changed. So I thought
I could use rsync here, but it’s inconvenient that “guix pack” will do
what it was designed for and produce a single file bundle.
What do you think about adding an output format that is no format at all
but a file enumeration printed to stdout? That way I could use “guix
pack” to produce a list of files to transfer and use that to transfer
only the unchanged files. Alternatively, perhaps we could have a
“directory” format that merely copies (or links) the files to a new
directory root.
--
Ricardo
next reply other threads:[~2020-12-06 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-06 9:53 Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2020-12-06 19:33 ` guix pack file enumerator? Ryan Prior
2020-12-07 15:14 ` zimoun
2020-12-08 11:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-09 11:04 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-12-14 9:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-15 2:43 ` Ryan Prior
2020-12-15 9:53 ` Nicolò Balzarotti
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