From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix archive export/import and software deployment
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 23:55:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871t7ndxo8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160306144132.GA1944@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Sun, 6 Mar 2016 15:41:32 +0100")
Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
> Guix archive is not working well for me. What I want is to deploy a
> package with its runtime dependencies reliably from one machine to
> another and update the profile after so it can be run, with its
> propagated dependencies.
>
> Dependencies are not all included when exporting. In fact all R
> modules are missing, but python modules are included. Ludo's earlier
> comment suggests the package is visited and harvested for runtime
> links. Apparently the R modules are not linked. Even so, they are in
> the package definition, so we should be able to capture them.
This is tricky because ‘guix archive’ does not know about packages; it
works at a lower abstraction level.
> The second problem is that there is no elegant way to recreate the
> profile now for the full thing. Obviously I have a complex product ;)
What about ‘guix package --manifest’? Does it help?
Otherwise, is it OK to pass the whole profile around, as with:
guix archive --export $(readlink -f ~/.guix-profile) > profile.nar
?
You’d still have to manually link to this profile on the target machine,
though:
cd /var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER
ln -s guix-profile-xyz-link /gnu/store/…-the-above-profile
I think ‘guix package’ should have options to simplify this.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-06 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-06 14:41 guix archive export/import and software deployment Pjotr Prins
2016-03-06 22:55 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-03-07 7:02 ` Chris Marusich
2016-03-07 7:15 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-03-07 16:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
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