From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: guixsd offline installation media Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 23:41:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87egekg0k8.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44223) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9hF8-0001Mp-Gq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:41:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9hF4-0004Tp-FW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:41:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Dika Setya Prayogi's message of "Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:07:34 +0700") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Dika Setya Prayogi Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi! Dika Setya Prayogi skribis: > can we make an offline installation media for future guixsd ? because > it is more reliable and easy to build in slow or problematic bandwith > like in my town The main difficulty is that the set of packages needed depends on what the OS configuration file contains. We could populate the installation media such that it contains everything needed for the bare-bones.scm config, or for the desktop.scm config (but it would be big!). However, as soon as the user would choose a different config, they would have to download different things, and perhaps those already in the installation image would happen to be unnecessary. Thoughts? BTW, note that our current server at hydra.gnu.org performs very badly, which explains the slow bandwidth (as well as the current fundraiser, see . :-)). Ludo=E2=80=99.