Re: Malconnected machines & guix pull

[Pjotr Prins]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 04:44:30PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Marco van Zwetselaar <address@hidden> 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. 

Pj.
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