Hello Guix!
With what I committed today, it is possible to make ‘guix’ commands talk
to remote daemons, either using the raw protocol (unencrypted,
unauthenticated) or over SSH:
GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET=guix://guix.example.org:1234 guix build foo
GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET=ssh://al...@guix.example.org guix gc
It’s pretty fun but there’s a couple of caveats:
1. It’s slow. This is because the protocol with the daemon currently
incurs a lot of round trips. We should probably redesign some of
the RPCs to be more efficient and pipelinable.
2. (guix derivations) may try to access .drv files in the local store
when it should really be accessing files from the remote store.
The store abstraction on the client side may have to be extended to
address this.
That’s it.
Feedback welcome!
Ludo’.
