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(gnu machine digital-ocean) installs old Guix

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: (gnu machine digital-ocean) installs old Guix
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:46:07 +0100

The (oddly named) procedure “guix-infect” in (gnu machine digital-ocean)
contains a Bash script that installs Guix 1.0.1 and sets the
GUILE_LOAD_PATH to that of Guile 2.2.

Likewise, “add-static-networking” in the same module sets
GUILE_LOAD_PATH to 2.2.

It seems to me that this should be updated to install the latest version
of Guix and set the load path to that of Guile 3.0.

I also wonder if there might not be a better way to deploy Guix quickly,
for example by using a relocatable pack of Guix and using “guix copy”
instead of executing a shell script.

-- 
Ricardo

Message #8 received at 45835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 45835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45835: (gnu machine digital-ocean) installs old Guix
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:17:17 +0100

Hello Ricardo,

> I also wonder if there might not be a better way to deploy Guix quickly,
> for example by using a relocatable pack of Guix and using “guix copy”
> instead of executing a shell script.

I think that building a Guix System image and creating a droplet out of
it using the DigitalOcean API, as I described here[1] would be a better
solution.

Thanks,

Mathieu

[1]: https://othacehe.org/hosting-a-blog-using-only-scheme.html

Message #11 received at 45835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 45835 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45835: (gnu machine digital-ocean) installs old Guix
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:33:17 +0100

Hi Mathieu,

>> I also wonder if there might not be a better way to deploy Guix quickly,
>> for example by using a relocatable pack of Guix and using “guix copy”
>> instead of executing a shell script.
>
> I think that building a Guix System image and creating a droplet out of
> it using the DigitalOcean API, as I described here[1] would be a better
> solution.

Yes, this seems better than installing Guix on an existing system (which
costs time and possibly expensive bandwidth), and to replace the running
system with it.

FWIW, I wrote Guile AWS[1], which may be useful for doing the same with
AWS as a backend.

-- 
Ricardo

[1]: https://git.elephly.net/?p=software/guile-aws.git

Message #16 received at 45835-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: 45835-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: (gnu machine digital-ocean) installs old Guix
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:25:59 +0200

This is no longer the case.  The module no longer references Guile 2,
and it installs the latest version of Guix.

-- 
Ricardo

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