GUIX(1)

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version 1.5.0 · 3 versions
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💖 GUIX(1) — like, the guix offload girlies' manual 💖

okay so real talk, this page lives in the User Commands section of the man pages, and before we get into it: this is the manual page for guix offload (GNU Guix) version 1.5.0rc1.47-fc2f5a. yes that's a whole version string, no I'm not reading it out loud twice, moving on bestie 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

guix — the manual page for guix offload (GNU Guix) 1.5.0rc1.47-fc2f5a

like yes that's literally the whole name section, it's giving "minimalist icon" 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

guix offload SYSTEM MAX-SILENT-TIME PRINT-BUILD-TRACE? BUILD-TIMEOUT

four args, in that order, no substitutions, no vibes-based reordering. periodt.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕ — this thing processes build offload requests written on the standard input, and it possibly offloads those builds to the machines listed in /etc/guix/machines.scm.

read that again. machines. plural. whole little friend group of build machines, iykyk 🌈

and like — important boundary — this tool is meant to be used internally by guix-daemon. it's not a "you, personally, on a Tuesday" kind of command. it's the daemon's little helper. main character energy but only backstage, fr fr 🧚

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found something cursed? don't suffer in silence, tell the maintainers:

three links, three chances to get unstuck. slay 💜

Copyright © 2025 the Guix authors License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

and the legal bit, which I'm keeping fully intact because I am not about to paraphrase a license at you:

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

like literally zero warranty, bestie. none. the warranty is in another castle 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

The full documentation for guix is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and guix programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info guix

should give you access to the complete manual. that's the whole bit — info guix, go read the real thing, it's giving "the extended director's cut" 🎬✨

🌸 okay that's the page!! sourced from GNU, dated January 2026, officially indexed as GUIX(1) — and that's the whole manpage, no notes, love u, bye 💖🦋🎀

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