bug#20381: Interacting with a remote daemon

Hello! l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > In , Ricardo notes: > > At some point I think it would make sense to enhance Guix such that > RPCs can be made over SSH, so that explicit logging on to a management > machine is no longer nec

bug#20381: Interacting with a remote daemon

Ludovic Courtès writes: > What about installing Guix in /gnu/bin (say) and sharing it over NFS? > > I would avoid installing Guix in a profile, because if things go wrong, > you may find yourself unable to do anything. In practice, you can > always roll-back by hand (it’s simply a matter of swi

bug#20381: Interacting with a remote daemon

Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I just tried the socat idea[1] with some success. > > On the guix-builder host where guix-daemon is running and the NFS share > holding ‘/gnu’ (with $localstatedir set to ‘/gnu/var’) is mounted as > read-write I executed this: > > /root/.guix-profile/bin/socat TCP4-L

bug#20381: Interacting with a remote daemon

I just tried the socat idea[1] with some success. On the guix-builder host where guix-daemon is running and the NFS share holding ‘/gnu’ (with $localstatedir set to ‘/gnu/var’) is mounted as read-write I executed this: /root/.guix-profile/bin/socat TCP4-LISTEN: UNIX:/gnu/var/guix/daemon-

bug#20381: Interacting with a remote daemon

In , Ricardo notes: At some point I think it would make sense to enhance Guix such that RPCs can be made over SSH, so that explicit logging on to a management machine is no longer necessary. We should see exactly how much support is needed.