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Post #2526544

2026-05-12 13:21 UTC

“Time travel without borders” https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/time-travel-without-borders/ On the freshly implemented ability of ‘guix time-machine’ and ‘guix pull’ to download channel files without putting you at risk. #Guix

Replies (5)

  • @civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr 2026-05-12 13:31

    @swheritage@mstdn.social: you might like how we put SWHIDs and the archive to good use. 👆

    Open ##2870198

  • @khinsen@scholar.social 2026-05-12 14:54

    @civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr This looks very nice! Now if only "guix shell" could also download a manifest file... via a SWHID of course. All the convenience of curl ... | sh without the problems.

    Open ##2870199

  • @civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr Really nice !! So we could now just pass a one line command with swhid to reproduce a paper, this is great ! Really useful for RZine Reproducible R Paper in the future ( cc @mattiabunel@framapiaf.org )

    Open ##2870216

  • @jfred@jawns.club 2026-05-12 15:05

    @civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr Ooh, exciting! I wonder if someday it could be possible to evaluate channel code in sandboxes as well, so trusting a channel becomes less of a concern. But I know that gets a lot more complicated than evaluating only the channel file itself in a sandbox

    Open ##2870222

  • @zimoun@social.sciences.re 2026-05-12 15:32

    @civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr My favorite quote from the post resuming the today’s computing world: « […] and many more are all about deploying software of unknown origin like there’s no tomorrow. »

    Open ##2870229