Re: guix archive export/import and software deployment

[Chris Marusich]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> 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.

Does that basically achieve a similar effect as the following in Nix?

https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-nix-copy-closure

I haven't used Nix much yet, but it seems similar in spirit. I wonder if
there's anything we could adapt from there.

Chris