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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: offline repo server
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:47:56 +0100
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Quiliro Ordonez Baca <quiliro@riseup.net> writes:

> I am not sure if this has been asked before. But I live in a place where
> there is no network link and I would like users to install different
> softwares there.
>
> Is it possible to have a machine connect to the net every so often so
> that it updates all available substitutes (or source if substitutes are
> not available)...and then take that machine to an offline site where
> other machines use it to install all packages that users want?

You have to control the version of Guix on these machines (it should be
the same).  If you know what packages they need then you can put them in
manifests and build those manifests on the host that can be connected to
the internet once in a while.  Later at the offline site you can then
fire up =E2=80=9Cguix publish=E2=80=9D to share your populated store with t=
he other
users.

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Ricardo

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