From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ‘guix copy’
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 10:10:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfbmNcFaQyEAZp_bOOyu2tahpMba5GyhVCZth8KjJFiO8Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eg0o2e0w.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Ludo,
On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hello Guix! :-)
>
> I’m pleased to announce the last(?) feature of the year: ‘guix copy’!
> It copies store items over SSH, pretty much like ‘guix offload’ already
> does; documentation below.
>
> Currently there’s no progress report and error reporting is suboptimal,
> but I find it useful already.
>
> Feedback welcome!
This is awesome! I really wanted such a feature back when I was
poking around with a 'guix deploy' prototype. Now I could use the
Scheme API to 'guix copy' to build an OS on my workstation, then ship
it to one or more remote machines and use guile-ssh to run the code to
instantiate it. Exciting!
- Dave
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2016-12-31 17:40 ‘guix copy’ Ludovic Courtès
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