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

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

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?

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

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).
>
>Best wishes,
>Arne
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