As someone said earlier, the commands are `nix-store --import` and `nix-store --export`.
-- Кирилл Елагин On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Kirill Elagin <[email protected]> wrote: > If I got it right, you just create exactly the same environment on your > own box with nix store wherever you like (its location is controlled by > NIX_STORE_DIR) and build everything from source, thus you get binaries with > custom path to the store hard-wired. Then you copy those to your target > machine. > > > -- > Кирилл Елагин > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > >
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