From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Self-contained Guix tarball
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:09:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sibvanhx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150419081846.GA6282@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Sun, 19 Apr 2015 10:18:46 +0200")
Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:23:50PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...]
>> What do you meaning by moving a package with dependencies?
>
> I am thinking about Nix-style closures. But it may only confuse
> things. I don't think the Guix manual covers closures.
I think “Invoking guix archive” covers what you have in mind. Maybe it
should be made more visible somehow?
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-archive.html
>> This part is the same as Nix. The database is here to store meta-data
>> about store items, notably the list of references found in a store item.
>> Determining this list requires scanning all of the store item???s
>> contents, which takes time proportional to the number/size of files it
>> contains, so the database can hardly be avoided.
>
> Yes, I understand. But would it be possible to regenerate the database
> from an existing /gnu/store?
In theory, yes.
> You can see I like to mess around with files ;). With closures a
> rebuild should not be necessary, but as a wary system administrator I
> know I will need it at some point.
What do you mean by “rebuild should not be necessary”? If you remove
files from the store manually?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-19 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-10 8:46 Copying whole /gnu/store from USB does not work Pjotr Prins
2015-04-10 11:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-10 13:14 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-10 13:41 ` David Thompson
2015-04-12 10:28 ` Copying whole /gnu/store from USB does not work (SOLVED) Pjotr Prins
2015-04-12 12:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-12 20:07 ` Self-contained Guix tarball Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-13 6:54 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-13 9:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-13 10:05 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-13 13:29 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-04-14 21:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-13 15:47 ` Thompson, David
2015-04-15 21:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-16 5:33 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-18 21:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-19 8:18 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-19 20:09 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-04-19 13:34 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-04-20 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-21 7:03 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-21 7:19 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-21 8:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-21 8:44 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-21 12:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-21 8:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-21 8:37 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-21 10:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-04-21 10:17 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-04-21 12:08 ` Andreas Enge
2015-04-21 12:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
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