Re: Guix website and CI is unavailable in Russia

[Dominic Martinez]

I don't know anything about gnu.org's availability, but if you 
want to download sources ahead of time you can do so with the guix 
build --sources flag. It will download the source of a package or 
derivation and put it in the store. For instance, you could 
download the sources of a package manifest and all of its 
transitive dependencies with the following:

guix build --sources=transitive --manifest=manifest.scm

I'm not sure how something fully offline would work though, as the 
sources for all Guix packages would take up a massive amount of 
disk space. The number of packages each person would want offline 
would also depend on how much disk space they are willing to give 
up.

w96k@riseup.net writes:

> Hello. Looks like Guix website (guix.gnu.org) and guix ci in cli 
> (can't
> pull and install packages from ci.guix.gnu.org) doesn't work 
> without a
> tor for some users from Russia including me. Gnu.org works fine 
> without
> a tor.
>
> The website is not blocked by Russian government (at least looks 
> like
> so):
>
> https://www.isitblockedinrussia.com/?host=guix.gnu.org
>
> As far as I know they block it by domain address, but I might be 
> wrong.
>
> I want to ask guix server location and ask is it some kind of 
> ban from
> guix server side or not? Maybe guix server provider or 
> government bans
> some russian ips now. Everything works fine through tor for me 
> and some
> ru users. It would be sad to stop using guix system because of 
> war
> issues.
>
> Also it is kinda related to GNU's freedom #1, because not 
> everyone can
> access the code and the compiled software via internet 
> connection: "The
> freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does 
> your
> computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is 
> a
> precondition for this."
>
> On a related note, do you think it might be a good idea to make 
> offline
> guix distribution? Looks like Russia has a danger of internet 
> shutdowns
> or china-like internet limitations. It can be organized like
> /gnu/sources/ folder with source code of many packages and when 
> package
> name is present them, guix would choose to build from source 
> without
> trying to connect to the servers or something like it. Just an 
> idea.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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