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From: Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Few questions regarding the installation
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:37:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFHYt551CShqKpmV-y2pQw2tCfc3TgNLphD6pECtLH36aPPUfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y50G7LILgVP0BD6R@ws>

Hi Wolf,

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 4:02 PM Wolf <wolf@wolfsden.cz> wrote:
>
> On IRC I was advised to try guix install lvm2-static, which does work
> (after sourcing the profile),

That is the correct procedure.

> however it does download the package
> from the internet. That seems pointless, since I already have one
> locally (as seen in the output of find above), so I would prefer to
> use that one.

The versions may be slightly different. I do not believe the Guix
daemon would download a new version if it was already present in your
store. Please remember that the hash in the name of the store item may
be different.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-17  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-17  0:01 Few questions regarding the installation Wolf
2022-12-17  0:37 ` Felix Lechner via [this message]
2022-12-17  2:41 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-12-18 23:21   ` Wolf

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