Hi cdelia,
> There is a standard way to generate an exportable installer.scm from a > specific generation? There is not. We only go from description to state, never from state back to the description. Ideally, your system configuration includes a complete description of the desired state of your machine, so you needn’t “export” anything but simply instantiate the configuration on the target machine. > When I'm only using the base distro to boot, I'll switch, but for that > I guess it would be cool to simple "export" the state of my machine to > the new installation, with the proper 'merging' taking place. With > merging I mean that the exported configuration will be a subset of the > final full guixSD distro. I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “merging” in this context. Could you give an example of state that would be affected by a merge like that? -- Ricardo
