Re: Export archive and import it on another machine

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 08:01:44PM +0000, 白い熊＠相撲道 wrote:
> I'm trying to export Libreoffice from one PC and import it on another one — 
> the reason I'm doing this is that with the latest git checkout when I try to 
> install it on a PC with a newly installed GuixSD it keeps building it from 
> source and failing. 
> 
> Anyhow, on the machine that I have it installed I ran: 
> 
> # guix archive --generate-key
> $ guix archive --export -r /gnu/store/hash...libreoffice-5.0.3.2 > 
> libreoffice-5.0.3.2.nar 
> 
> Then copied the nar and /etc/guix/signing-key.pub to the other PC. 
> 
> There I ran: 
> 
> # guix archive --authorize < signing-key.pub
> $ guix archive --import < libreoffice-5.0.3.2.nar
> 
> The last command fails with: 
> 
> guix archive: error: build failed: program `guix-authenticate' failed with 
> exit code 1
> 
> What am I doing wrong? 

Hm, I'm not sure. Are you sure the source machine's public key is in
/etc/guix/acl?

> 
> Side question — why is it building Libreoffice from source on “guix package 
> -i libreoffice”? Recipe there, but not built on Hydra? How can I install an 
> earlier already—built version? 

Most likely for this reason:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22653

You can install an earlier version by checking out a commit in the Guix
git repo from before Vigra broke, and building based on that commit [0].

When building Guix from git, be sure to pass the correct value to
./configure --localstatedir=. Most likely it is '/var'.

[0]
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Building-from-Git

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> 白い熊＠相撲道
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