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

[Matthias Beyer]

That should be:

    sudo nix-store --import < example.closure

(note the '<').

Worked perfectly. Where can I add documentation?

On 14-03-2016 22:39:02, Brian McKenna wrote:
> 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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-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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