Hello!
Ricardo Wurmus skribis:
>> somehow propagated-inputs don't go into the archive. You'd think they are
>> critical
>> dependencies.
>>
>> Q1: is that to be expected?
>
> I’m not sure, but it seems wrong.
I understand it’s weird, but it’s expected: ‘guix archive’ is a
low-level thing tha
On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 04:15:52PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> I haven't tried more than the above commands, nor do I use Nix anymore,
> nor do I have any idea how good or reusable the code is, but it's a start.
Absolutely! I'll work on this. Thanks,
Pj.
Pjotr,
Pjotr Prins wrote on 07/01/18 at 11:32:
> I have limited internet these weeks, but when I have more space I can
> look at Nix tooling again. See if there is something to view the
> contents of a nar file.
Apparently[0] Nix 1.12 has a new ‘nix’ UI or wrapper with direct support
for listing
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 01:46:18PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> > > Q3: how do we view the contents of a NAR file without unpacking it?
> >
> > I don’t think you can. It’s a custom format implemented by
> > nix/libutil/archive.cc.
OK, the format is pretty simple. On why Nix did not use tar
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 01:46:18PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> I’m not sure, but it seems wrong. What I used to do is to create a
> profile and export that recursively:
>
> guix archive --export --recursive \
> $(readlink -f /project/.guix-profile) | \
> gzip --stdout - > my-profile.
Hi Pjotr,
> somehow propagated-inputs don't go into the archive. You'd think they are
> critical
> dependencies.
>
> Q1: is that to be expected?
I’m not sure, but it seems wrong. What I used to do is to create a
profile and export that recursively:
guix archive --export --recursive \
I guess no one uses this format ;). I set up another guix publish
server for Fred (Africa could not reach guix.genenetwork.org for some
reason).
I know we can use Guix pack but that don't play well with a running
Guix system. Now if we could unpack it would be solved.
I'll have a think about thi
Hi,
I am trying to send a NAR archive to Fred. We are facing a few issues.
First I created the archive
env GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=../guix-bioinformatics/ ./pre-inst-env guix archive
--export -r --no-grafts genenetwork2 > gn2.nar
and Fred installed the key and unpacked it. Unfortunately it does no
