[Nix-dev] Copy a closure to machine with no Nix installed on it

[Tomasz Czyż]

I assume you could do
nix-store --export or nix-store --dump to prepare archive
or you can query nix store for all dependnecies and with that list you can
copy them using method of your choice


2017-03-02 16:38 GMT+00:00 Volth <volth at volth.com>:

> Hello
>
> What is a good way to copy a closure to a Linux machine where Nix is
> not installed (and it is tricky to install: 1. there is only root
> account and 2. there may be no Internet access) ?
>
> "nix-copy-closure" expects "nix-store" on the target machine.
>
> Would "nix-store" be a single executable with no dependencies, it
> could be uploaded beforehand, but it has a lot of dependencies so its
> uploading is also the task of uploading a closure to a machine without
> Nix...
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Tomasz Czyż
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