Greetings, I am attempting to use "Guix Deploy" as a replacement for Norton Ghost/SCCM, imaging type software.
There are 2 tasks I'm working on: 1) Using deploy to update a machine - I don't understand the point of pushing packages to a system that disappear if you do a "guix system reconfigure" on that machine. To deal with this I have this code in my deploy file: ;; This will locate where the system config file is (define this-file (local-file (basename (assoc-ref (current-source-location) 'filename) "config.scm"))) ;; This replaces or creates a new system config file (simple-service 'config-file etc-service-type `(("lr.scm" ,this-file))) Perhaps an argument to "Guix Deploy" to optionally save the file you are pushing on the remote machine could be added? 2) I am trying to deploy a machine that is running the guix installer in cli mode off the USB key. I have done the following steps: 1) ifconfig <interface> up 2) passwd root <passwd> 3) guix install guile-ssh 4) herd start ssh-daemon 5) I then have a script I run on the target machine: umount -a parted /dev/sda set 1 esp on mkfs.fat -F32 -n GUIX-BOOT /dev/sda1 mkswap --label=guix-swap /dev/sda2 swapon LABEL=guix-swap mkfs.ext4 -L guix-root /dev/sda3 mount --label=guix-root /mnt mkdir -p /mnt/etc mkdir -p /mnt/etc/guix/ mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi mount --label=GUIX-BOOT /mnt/boot/efi sudo guix archive --authorize < key-publish.pub mkdir -p ~/.ssh/ cat key-ssh.pub > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys herd start cow-store /mnt echo "Ready for deploy!" 6) I then start the deploy process with "Guix Deploy" and it works for some of the process: guix deploy: deploying to lr... guix deploy: sending 9 store items (5 MiB) to '10.0.0.6'... guix deploy: sending 805 store items (4,269 MiB) to '10.0.0.6'... once it's done the big file transfer, I run into this: guix deploy: error: failed to deploy lr: build daemon handshake failed Is this an error I can get around or fix? or is "Guix Deploy" not meant for using on a machine that hasn't done "Guix System Init" yet? Thank you, Kurt