On 2 March 2017 at 17:38, Volth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > What is a good way to copy a closure to a Linux machine where Nix is > not installed (and it is tricky to install: 1. there is only root > account and 2. there may be no Internet access) ? > > "nix-copy-closure" expects "nix-store" on the target machine. > > Would "nix-store" be a single executable with no dependencies, it > could be uploaded beforehand, but it has a lot of dependencies so its > uploading is also the task of uploading a closure to a machine without > Nix...
Don't know how to do it without Nix, but Nix can be installed offline. Get the binary tarball for you system: http://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-1.11.7/nix-1.11.7-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2 Copy it to your target machine, unpack and run ./install from the extracted tree. That creates a single user install. It requires sudo to create the /nix directory, everything else is owned and run by your user. (There are ways to run nix from $HOME or wherever, I think "proot" is a good search word.) Once you have nix you have nix-copy-closure. Hope that helps. Best regards, Bjørn Forsman _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
