[Nix-dev] How to use binaries from other hosts?

[Brian McKenna]

You can skip signature checking by using root:

    sudo nix-copy-closure --import example.closure

I found this on the Nix issue tracker somewhere. It might not be
documented behaviour.

On 14 March 2016 at 20:07, Matthias Beyer <mail at beyermatthias.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm on nixos unstable. As racket does not build and my thinkpad takes hours to
> build it, I got myself a debian VM in my university cloud and compiled racket
> there.
>
> How can I retrieve the closure from there?
>
> I tried _everything_. I cannot nix-copy-closure, as this one does not allow me
> to set the SSH port (which isn't 22 but something above 10000).
>
> I tried to nix-store --export, copy via SCP and then nix-store --import, but it
> fails as the closure is not signed...
>
> Can someone please help me with this?
>
> I normally install racket with a nix-shell for my blog environment. I guess I
> should make this shell env persistent to be save of GC, though I cannot find
> documentation on how to _remove_ a persistent shell env... and I want to know
> how to remove it, before making it permanent.
>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> Kind regards,
> Matthias Beyer
>
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