Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 03:33:50PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Good to see you’re running your own service! > > It is used for GeneNetwork - a complex web service. It uses git for > byte-identical installs and a Guix server for distributing the > binaries. This is my current way to making sure everyone is running > the exact same software tree and get binary installs. > > The installation notes are here: > > > https://github.com/pjotrp/genenetwork2/blob/paper/doc/README.org#quick-installation-recipe
Nice! One limitation that may be a problem for you is that ‘guix publish’ doesn’t yet compress the archives it serves. > It is not as easy as 'guix package -i genenetwork2'. But then, it > works (TM). People are installing it this way. Is there anything particular preventing you from writing a genenetwork2 package? Thanks, Ludo’.