Re: Permanently available environments

2022-03-10 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ludo, > Another option is to rely on the ‘time-machine’ and ‘shell’ LRU caches. > That is, you can run: That's what I did in the past, until the first time I hit an expired cache. In conformance with Murphy's law, I was in a train, with a bad Internet-by-phone connection, and Guix started down

Re: Permanently available environments

2022-03-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Konrad, Time has passed… Konrad Hinsen skribis: > Konrad Hinsen writes: > >> 1. Containers can only be generated using "guix shell" or the older >>"guix environment". There is no way to generate a container based >>on a profile. Correct me if I am wrong! > > Thanks to Ricardo and Gu

Re: Permanently available environments

2022-01-28 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Konrad Hinsen writes: > 1. Containers can only be generated using "guix shell" or the older >"guix environment". There is no way to generate a container based >on a profile. Correct me if I am wrong! Thanks to Ricardo and Guillaume, who pointed out the –profile option to "guix shell", wh

Re: Permanently available environments

2022-01-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2022-01-28, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > 4. In practice, I often work with a bad or non-existing network >connection, so I must be sure to have all my packages in the store. >And if I use "time-machine", I must also keep the required Guix >version locally available. But there is no option

Re: Permanently available environments

2022-01-28 Thread Guillaume Le Vaillant
Konrad Hinsen skribis: > Hi Guix, > > I would like to migrate more of my software use to Guix-based > containers, but I haven't yet found a way to handle them that fully > suits my needs. The root issue is the volatility of environments, and I > wonder if I am missing some feature to handle them

Re: Permanently available environments

2022-01-28 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Konrad Hinsen writes: > Hi Guix, > > I would like to migrate more of my software use to Guix-based > containers, but I haven't yet found a way to handle them that fully > suits my needs. The root issue is the volatility of environments, and I > wonder if I am missing some feature to handle them

Permanently available environments

2022-01-28 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Guix, I would like to migrate more of my software use to Guix-based containers, but I haven't yet found a way to handle them that fully suits my needs. The root issue is the volatility of environments, and I wonder if I am missing some feature to handle them better. Here is my current reasoning