Re: share guix and its store between distributions

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Mon, 09 Oct 2023 at 10:43, Emmanuel Beffara <manu@beffara.org> wrote:

>> > Is there a way to share Guix and its store between several distributions?
>> > [...]
>> 
>> It looks like you already have the right idea. You'd have to share /gnu
>> and /var/guix between the two distributions, as well as have the same
>> UID (and possibly GID) for the users.
>
> If I know for sure that there is no state anywhere else than that, then it
> looks fine. I was worried that running Guix's daemon and command would leave
> things inconsistent otherwise.

Just to mention that I do not know what happens with the store database
if you run concurrently two guix-daemon.

For your use-case, it should be ok, though. :-)  Since you will run only
one guix-daemon at one time.

Cheers,
simon