Re: How to find a package file from substitute servers

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Pan Xie <xiepan@skyguard.com.cn> skribis:

> Unfortunately, I can't find a way to do the similar thing on GuixSD. I
> know there is a “guix locate” to find files from store items, but
> those store items must be already present in my gnu store.

There’s a plan to allow ‘guix locate’ to download a file database from
the build farm (for example) but unfortunately that has yet to become a
reality.  So for now, there’s now built-in way to fetch such a database.

Ludo’.