From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: myglc2 Subject: Re: GuixSD installation: binary vs source packages Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 15:12:26 -0500 Message-ID: <861sumav2t.fsf@gmail.com> References: <8660jzav0c.fsf@gmail.com> <20170225155236.GA3227@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chihj-0002xs-Nz for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 15:12:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chihg-0001kG-JW for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 15:12:31 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-x244.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::244]:36560) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chihg-0001k4-Eh for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 15:12:28 -0500 Received: by mail-qk0-x244.google.com with SMTP id r90so8395938qki.3 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 12:12:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20170225155236.GA3227@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sat, 25 Feb 2017 10:52:36 -0500") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Leo Famulari Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" , Alex Vestgaard On 02/25/2017 at 10:52 Leo Famulari writes: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 09:01:39PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: >> In my practical experience of running a GuixSD headless server for the >> last 12 months, if you use 'guix pull', which is effectively a rolling >> release, there is no way to tell. > > The default action of `guix pull` is like a rolling release, but you can > also use it to deploy any version or Git commit of Guix, using `guix > pull --url=...`: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=8a9cffb202414b20081910115ba76402924bdcdd > > You still can't be sure that we will have binary substitutes for every > package. I just wanted to point out this little-known feature of `guix > pull`, which gives Guix users some more flexibility without requiring > them to maintain a Guix development environment. Thanks. I think the issue with this feature is that there is no guidance for picking an URL. Here is an idea... What if hydra provided an URL guidance page? For example, it could have a short list of "guix greatest hits URLs" for which, hopefully, a full set of substitutes is maintained. Obvious candidates for this list would be the last couple install images. Or, it could provide a page ranking URLs by release date and showing substitute coverage.