Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> 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", which does exactly what I need. I missed it because it is not mentioned in the manual. I just submitted a patch. > 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 for that in > "time-machine". The Guix versions it downloads are garbage-collected > after a while. So I can find myself in the situation of having all > the packages for my environment in the store, but unable to access > it without a network connection, because "time-machine" first needs > to fetch an old Guix version again. Thanks to Vagrant for pointing out that "guix pull" has a –profile option as well (which I wasn't aware of). This can indeed serve as a workaround, although it looks a bit clumsy. Cheers, Konrad.