On 06/13/2014 02:33 PM, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 06/13/2014 02:19 PM, Andreas Herrmann wrote: >> Given a case where you can't get the admin to give you `/nix`, and where >> you have space/compute constraints on the target, would it be possible >> to create the full nix install on your own local machine in the correct >> paths, and then just copy it to the target? Maybe a little like your >> own, small, on-demand hydra... > > It should be enough to just define NIX_STORE_DIR when using the nix tools. > > However, there might not be an easy way ready for installing the nix > tools itself without root privileges. Some description of the whole > process is e.g. > https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_nix_in_home_(on_another_distribution) > > > Vlada > > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
Can you elaborate on how using NIX_STORE_DIR would work? I ran into a space constraint problem (apparently 1.5GB to install GCC is not enough) so next thing I want to try is to compile it on my home computer and then send it over to my restricted target box. How would the whole process look like? Do I need to create the store directory at same path it is at on the target box? What commands can I use to transfer the built GCC between stores? -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
