Re: Binary downloads

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:43:29PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:21:54PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
>> > OK then. I'll build on a server instead. Is there a howto on creating your
>> > own 'remote' package cache? And does Guix hashing ignore kernel
>> > versions? The server has
>> 
>> There is no need to install a separate server. If you wish to install a
>> package on your laptop, "guix package -i package-name" will download the
>> sources of all prerequisites and compile them for your (assuming that you
>> installed guix and its daemon as explained in the manual).
>
> Sorry, I was not clear. I do not want to build on my laptop (the noise
> drives me nuts :). So I want to build on a remote server and install
> on my laptop, or on compute nodes, or whatever. With Nix it is
> possible. Does Guix allow caching of packages, so I can share.

Guix can use “substitutes” (binaries) from Hydra, just like Nix does.

Alternately (but I’m not sure that’s what you’re asking for), it has
support to offload builds to remote machines over SSH (info "(guix)
Daemon Offload Setup").

There’s currently nothing like ‘nix-push’, though.

Does it answer your question?

Thanks,
Ludo’.