Re: How to reconfigure system without downloads I did not order?

[jbranso@dismail.de]

There is some code for guix that will allow guix to distribute software updates over IPFS.  You are welcome to contribute to that!

I believe that there is also some work that will allow people to fetch software updates over GNUnet.

Both of these proposals would allow users from all over the world to publish software updates to others, like torrent-ing works.

November 28, 2020 1:03 PM, znavko@disroot.org wrote:

> I restarted the process of reconfigure (usual without additional flags and hacks)
> for abput 25 times and at last it downloaded everything and finished successfully.
> 
> I think Guix needs good infrastructure and some
> mechanism of checking optimal mirrors and recommendations for using them.
> 
> To add new disk into system with such a bad lucks is a very bottle neck of this powerful system.
> 
> November 28, 2020 12:14 PM, "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> 
>> Hullo znavko,
>> 
>> znavko--- via 写道：
>> 
>>> I am sorry. How to prevent the process of system upgrade and
>>> just remain things as they are but only adding new disk to my
>>> system?
>> 
>> Guix can't upgrade your system, it can only build a new one. It
>> will merely re-use parts of the old system that they have in
>> common (which can be and often is ‘almost everything’).
>> 
>> This is actually significant: you can't ask a new Guix to modify
>> an older Guix's system, to leave everything in place but just add
>> this one small thing, like you can for bare profiles. For that,
>> you need to reconfigure the old system with the same version of
>> Guix that was used to build it.
>> 
>> What do
>> 
>> $ guix system describe
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> $ guix describe
>> 
>> say? My guess is they will both display a different commit
>> because you've ‘guix pull’ed after creating the system. If so,
>> you can use
>> 
>> $ guix time-machine --commit=<system commit> -- system
>> reconfigure …
>> 
>> to apply your changes.
>> 
>> If the system and guix commits *do* match and you've added nothing
>> besides a new FILE-SYSTEM, I have no idea why Guix is
>> (re-)building ffmpeg. An overzealous ‘guix gc’ in the meantime?
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> T G-R