From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Dika Setya Prayogi <dikasetyaprayogi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: guixsd offline installation media
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:12:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zix1323z.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151220140826.4538c50b@debian-netbook> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:08:26 +0200")
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
> I was going to make jokes about apt-cd and the years of issues that's caused
> people with fresh debian installs, but all we should need to do is
> populate /gnu/store with either/both precompiled binaries/source files.
> If/when substitutes fails, the files are already there.
>
> As an aside, I don't think targeting DVD size is a good idea, but maybe
> 4GB/8GB for usb sticks shouldn't be bad. Also if we had a torrent it would be
> easier to not rely directly on hydra for starting up. Also its an easy way to
> donate bandwidth without setting up a hydra clone.
I like the idea of having torrents for those huge binaries, this should
really speed up the downloading process.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-23 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-16 4:07 guixsd offline installation media Dika Setya Prayogi
2015-12-16 4:42 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-16 4:57 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-17 22:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-18 3:40 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-18 17:41 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-12-18 20:11 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-19 14:09 ` ‘guix pull’ vs. Git Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-17 22:41 ` guixsd offline installation media Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-18 8:03 ` Dika Setya Prayogi
2015-12-18 9:19 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-12-20 12:08 ` Efraim Flashner
2015-12-23 10:12 ` Alex Vong [this message]
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