Re: about basic operation of guix sd

[Satoru KURASHIKI <lurdan@gmail.com>]

hi, thank you for your reply.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 1:30 AM Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> I think this is a bad idea, because it might break assumptions of the mathematical model guix relies on. Not sure how to sync two stores automatically. The "guix copy" command can be used to do that manually. Note that guix publish will publish your whole /gnu/store, independently of how items were obtained.
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> If you use guix publish for things that were not built on the official build farm, you need to have a look at guix --archive to generate key pairs and authorize your personal substitute server. For items that were built on the official build farm, it is enough to authorize the build farm, because these items will be detected as identical, even if they come from a different source.

Thanks, lazy evaluating "Invoking guix copy", it seems to be handy for
each target package!

> The manual has a section "the perfect setup" that should explain everything if you want to contribute.
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> Guix pull is indeed more or less a wrapper around git pull. The repository is available in the store, but because of the mathematical model, it is read-only and must not be modified. You can still use "guix edit foo" to open the package definition of foo in your favorite editor.

OK, I wil read that section throughly when time come.
For now I have to used to its daily administration...

>> If this is not for a contribution, the next best thing you can do is create a channel that allows you to share your modifications (or you can keep them private, but share them between your computers).
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> Note that the guix-daemon is only there to build and download packages, it doesn't know anything about available packages, etc. Your guix command does. That allows each user on your system to customize the set of available packages.

Anyway, I use GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH and have managed to build small font
package recipe.
With some more, I will try it migrating to channel.

regards,
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KURASHIKI Satoru