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Hello everyone,

I’m building an application that uses Sysand for dependency management, and I’d like to be able to ship the application as standalone (able to run in an air-gapped environment).

To enable this, I’d therefore like to:

  1. At compile time: be able to create a local index containing the dependencies my app needs, copying from some other index (including the default index). I’m able to reproduce this using several sysand index x commands, however it would be nice if there could be something like:
    sysand index create-local <list-of-iris>, which would then also install dependencies of the packages in that local index
  2. At execution time (so in the air-gapped env): be able to install packages from the local index. Currently only http and https are supported for the --index/--default-index parameters of sysand add, so it should need to be possible to use file:/// as well.

Thanks for considering :slight_smile:

Greetings,
Jasper

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Thanks for the proposal!

A potentially easier solution (or at least a stop-gap) would be to simply copy over (or package in an archive) the .sysand folder from a non-airgapped system.

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Yeah that’s basically what I am doing now, but I want to make it nicely deterministic and automated in the future, instead of relying on manually keeping the various dependency versions updated :slight_smile: