From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Malconnected machines & guix pull
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:39:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <idj8u1pw2vf.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160310170451.GB22669@thebird.nl>
Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 04:44:30PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>
>> Marco van Zwetselaar <zwets@zwets.com> writes:
>>
>> > In fact, what I am really looking for is a --substitute-urls option for
>> > 'guix pull', or a way to separate the pull and the subsequent build, so
>> > that I can make it connect to a 'guix publish'-ing server.
>>
>> Instead of “guix pull” may I suggest using git instead? Especially,
>> when you have multiple machines on which Guix should run, it may make
>> sense to just clone the Guix git repository once from the Internet,
>> clone it to the other machines via local network, and then update once
>> in a while via “git pull” (not “guix pull”).
>>
>> You can create a link “~/.config/guix/latest” pointing to, say,
>> “~/dev/guix” (if that’s the directory holding the cloned repository).
>>
>> When you update with “git pull” you’ll only have to download recent
>> changes, not the whole Guix code.
>>
>> Does this make sense?
>>
>> ~~ Ricardo
>
> This has the additional benefit of 'fixating' the dependencies and
> having some control over status of packages. This is why we have a
> gn-stable checkout of guix which is shared among deployments. And it
> can save a lot of downloads.
Yeah, this achieves what in traditional package management scenarios is
done by a repository mirror. In combination with local build hosts you
can ensure that all packages at the current checkout are available as
binary substitutes.
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-11 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-10 11:31 Malconnected machines & guix pull Marco van Zwetselaar
2016-03-10 15:44 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-10 17:04 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-03-11 13:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-03-10 17:53 ` [PATCH] doc: Add footnote about pointing ~/.config/guix/latest at user's checkout Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-11 13:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-03-11 16:42 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-11 14:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-03-23 8:52 ` Malconnected machines & guix pull Marco van Zwetselaar
2016-03-23 11:06 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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