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From: Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv>
To: 45mg <45mg.writes@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why does `system reconfigure` need to `pull`?
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:41:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ed1ue16w.fsf@retrospec.tv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8734ibx1op.fsf@gmail.com> (45mg.writes@gmail.com's message of "Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:44:06 -0500")

Hi 45mg,

45mg <45mg.writes@gmail.com> writes:

> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at
> 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
>
> It then says it's fetching and indexing objects, authenticating 
> N
> new commits, etc. As far as I can tell, this stage is equivalent 
> to
> `guix pull`. It sometimes repeats this several times during the
> course of the `reconfigure`.
>
> I didn't think much of this at first, although I thought it was 
> odd
> that the manual did not mention a 'pull' stage [1].
>

I’ve also noticed this, and wondered why it always pulls 
first. Even
if you have an internet connection, the pull makes the reconfigure
slower than it could be.

> Now, I really want to believe that there's a way around this; 
> that I
> haven't read the docs enough, and there's some option or command 
> to
> reconfigure my system without pulling new commits. But I can't 
> seem
> to find any such thing. (`guix time-machine` has the same 
> problem
> [3].)
>
> Is there really no way to reconfigure my system without an 
> internet
> connection?
>

I dug around in the --help output, but I didn’t see anything that
looked like it’d skip the pull.  It’d definitely be nice to have 
an
--offline or --no-pull option when reconfiguring.

The simplest path forward for you is to replace your Guix channels
with local clones of them, so `guix pull' uses your filesystem 
instead
of the network.  You can then `git pull' in your clone to get new
commits when you like, and `guix pull' after that to update Guix 
to
use them.

I’ve heard of Guix getting used in places without much 
connectivity
before, though I don’t know how it was accomplished. Maybe someone 
can
chime in with their workflow.

 -- Ian


  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-26 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-25 14:44 Why does `system reconfigure` need to `pull`? 45mg
2024-12-26 18:41 ` Ian Eure [this message]
2024-12-26 21:48 ` Christopher Baines
2024-12-27 19:58 ` 45mg
2024-12-27 21:29   ` Tomas Volf
2024-12-28  7:14     ` Docs: Clarify use-cases of `guix-for-channels`? 45mg
2024-12-28 12:56       ` Tomas Volf
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-12-26 12:56 Why does `system reconfigure` need to `pull`? František Boháček

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