On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 02:41:10PM -0300, EuAndreh via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > My proposal was a little more crude: get the channel code from a tarball. In > this model there are no authentications with fingerprint or signed commits, > neither "guix pull" would know much about the before/after state of a channel > besides comparing the checksum of the whole tarball.
For this use case, where you don't require many of the `guix pull` features, you could use GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH instead: https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/GUIX_005fPACKAGE_005fPATH.html
