Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Guix, > > as my i686 laptop has only about 1G of memory and thus fails to build a > great many packages (including the guix package itself) I wanted to > build its configuration on my x86_64 laptop. I then copied the system > closure to the i686 laptop with “guix copy”. > > On the i686 target I ran “sudo -E guix system reconfigure config.scm” > and expected it to do little more than switching to the transferred > system item. Instead it started building Guix, which fails on my i686 > machine (not enough memory).
There is a caveat with `guix copy`: if you copy the grafted derivation (as the `guix system build` closure would be) the receiving system won't recognize it since it only computes the ungrafted derivations. If you build the system with --no-grafts, I suspect things will work as expected. > Is this behaviour a bug? Probably :)
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