Re: substitutes mirror of 0.9.0 packages

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 02:22:13PM +0100, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/18/2015 10:25 AM, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
> >http://fps.io:9999
> >
> >The public key is:
> >
> >(public-key
> >  (ecc
> >   (curve Ed25519)
> >   (q #AFF68C4E099401E85BE2D7375C1DB5E8A29F1DB83299038122AF5C0984099CF8#)
> >   )
> >  )
> 
> In case you wondered about how to use this (which I just only found out
> myself ;)):
> 
> Do
> 
> $ sudo guix archive --authorize
> 
> Then paste in the scheme expression for the key above and finish with
> ctrl-d. After that you can use e.g.
> 
> guix package -i boost --substitute-urls="http://fps.io:9999"

The guix-daemon takes the argument "--substitute-urls", so you can also
use it system-wide without extra typing.

> 
> to install boost. Some more output of guix package might have been helpful
> in discovering this (something along the line of "Yo, you passed me a
> substituter URL but it haz no valid keyz dude!". And maybe even "Read the
> fine manual, especially section so and so").
> 
> Flo
> 
> P.S.: Right now this seems to be a global thing. I had to authorize the key
> system wide. Is there a way to do it per user? Or even per user profile?
>