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

[Brian McKenna]

That should be:

    sudo nix-store --import example.closure

On 14 March 2016 at 22:35, Brian McKenna <brian at brianmckenna.org> wrote:
> 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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