Re: How to create a substitute server with substitutes that failed?

[Julien Lepiller]

guix build <package> will output all the store names for the outputs of 
<package> (usually only one). The hash in the directory names is what you want 
as the narinfo filename.

Le 26 août 2020 12:12:44 GMT-04:00, "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" 
<arne_bab@web.de> a écrit :
>
>Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>
>> I suppose, but that's going to be a bit of work. I'm not very
>knowledgeable on this part of guix. I think you'll need to generate a
>narinfo and a nar for each store item you want to be available. Maybe
>you can run guix publish locally and mirror the files it serves on your
>server?
>
>That sounds like a viable option.
>
>> You'll need to publish /<store hash of output>.narifo and the other
>files it references (the nar archives themselves).
>
>So I only need a way to get all the hashes referenced for a given
>package. Do you know the command for that?
>
>> So you'd download them from localhost and send them to your server.
>Your guix daemon must trust the builder's public key, or the substitute
>will not be downloaded.
>>
>> Le 26 août 2020 10:56:26 GMT-04:00, "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide"
><arne_bab@web.de> a écrit :
>>>Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
>>>> The best would be to run "guix publish" on your server, as it will
>>>allow others to use your server as a substitute server, instead of
>>>having to manually download archives of the package and dependencies.
>>>Thank you for your answer!
>>>
>>>Is it possible to do the equivalent of guix publish on a dumb server?
>>>
>>>The webhosts I have are pretty dumb servers that definitely have no
>>>Guix, and I have no root-access (and currently don’t want it, because
>I
>>>don’t like the maintenance burden that comes with it).
>
>
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