hi, thank you for your reply. On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 1:27 AM Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Satoru, and welcome to Guix! I hope you will enjoy your stay. :-) > > Satoru KURASHIKI <lur...@gmail.com> writes: > > > hi, > > > > I happen to know Guix SD recently, and trying to tinkering it. > > FYI the 'SD' name has been deprecated in favor of 'Guix System'.
Ah, I see, so there are several bindings...:) > Syncing /gnu/store will not work without also syncing /var/guix/db. I > think what you want to do is on host1 run 'guix publish' as you already > found, and on host2 you can then use 'guix install foo > --substitute-urls="https://host1 https://ci.guix.gnu.org"' to get > substitutes from both host1 and the Guix CI infrastructure. > > See https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Invoking-guix-publish for a > more complete explanation. > hmm...OK, so it's dificult to have a partial mirror on my tiny VPS. # I thought of pushing to VPS from my desktop, and fetch them from # old laptop when I'm away from home. (to demonstrate guix to friends) ## mainly for iwlwifi things and so on. kernel demands me one night. > To do this through the configuration system, you need > 'guix-publish-service-type' and adjusting the 'substitute-urls' field of > 'guix-service-type'. > > > - The right way of treating guix code (or guile code structure?) > > - I have to clone guix repo into my home directory? > > - Though "guix pull" should have source tree anywhere (in > > /gnu/store?), so are there any interfaces > > to access them through guix-daemon? > > - I want to tweak existing code (package definition) > > - I should copy target file to somewhere working directory to edit > > or edit target file in the project tree? > > After cloning the Guix repository, you can run Guix directly from the > checkout using the "./pre-inst-env" script: see the Contributing > section of the manual for how to configure a development environment: > > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Contributing > > Another alternative is to use 'guix pull --url=/your/cloned/repository'. Hacking guix itself is... difficult for me, so I expect guix command to work out of the box: - invoke "current" guix - it refers current store (readonly), cloned checkout of guix tree (overriding current one), and my local package module would be desirable. > You can get completion and jumping through Geiser, but I don't have > instructions at hand. Hopefully some of the Emacs gurus can chime in > here. :-) I've found setting "geiser-guile-load-path" and Autodoc seems to work. I will try to build environment on this. regards, -- KURASHIKI Satoru