On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 05:49:00PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > > > Exporting a nar and importing it on another machine only works when the > > package being built has a single output. > > Note that “guix archive --export foo” only exports foo:out. If you want > to export other outputs, you have to explicitly list them. > > > I set up a signing-key on the sending machine, authorized it on the > > receiving machine, and successfully transferred some nars of > > single-output packages. I say they succeeded because `guix build > > --no-grafts foo` did not need to build foo after having imported the nar > > archive built on the other machine. > > ‘guix build’ starts building unless all the outputs of the package are > already in the store. > > > However, it fails for packages with multiple outputs such as Syncthing > > and libsmf. > > Could it be that you copied only one output of the package, and thus > ‘guix build’ considered it had to build it because the other outputs > were missing?
Yes, that must be it! Thanks for your reply and I'll re-open this ticket if necessary.
