Re: How to create a substitute server with substitutes that failed?

["Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>]

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Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:

> I suppose, but that's going to be a bit of work. I'm not very knowledgeable on this part of guix. I think you'll need to generate a narinfo and a nar for each store item you want to be available. Maybe you can run guix publish locally and mirror the files it serves on your server?

That sounds like a viable option.

> You'll need to publish /<store hash of output>.narifo and the other files it references (the nar archives themselves).

So I only need a way to get all the hashes referenced for a given
package. Do you know the command for that?

> So you'd download them from localhost and send them to your server. Your guix daemon must trust the builder's public key, or the substitute will not be downloaded.
>
> Le 26 août 2020 10:56:26 GMT-04:00, "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de> a écrit :
>>Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>>> The best would be to run "guix publish" on your server, as it will
>>allow others to use your server as a substitute server, instead of
>>having to manually download archives of the package and dependencies.
>>Thank you for your answer!
>>
>>Is it possible to do the equivalent of guix publish on a dumb server?
>>
>>The webhosts I have are pretty dumb servers that definitely have no
>>Guix, and I have no root-access (and currently don’t want it, because I
>>don’t like the maintenance burden that comes with it).


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