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From: symphonia@disroot.org
To: 39023@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39023: binary installation manual doesn't work on Alpine Linux
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 21:29:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4678e0a6a529877fee91a452424115c1@disroot.org> (raw)

The commands in https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Build-Environment-Setup
do not work on busybox-based systems such as Alpine Linux by default.
This is because they do not have 'groupadd' or 'useradd' by default (from 'shadow' package).

# groupadd --system guixbuild
# for i in `seq -w 1 10`;
  do
    useradd -g guixbuild -G guixbuild           \
            -d /var/empty -s `which nologin`    \
            -c "Guix build user $i" --system    \
            guixbuilder$i;
  done

I suggest adding another example which works by default on busybox.
Explanation: -S means 'add system group/user'; -h is 'home directory'; -g is 'GECOS field'
Also, Alpine Linux fails to boot if /var/empty is not owned by root, so that needs to be fixed afterward as well.

addgroup -S guixbuild
for i in `seq -w 1 10`;
do
adduser -G guixbuild \
-h /var/empty -s `which nologin` \
-g "Guix build user $i" -S \
guixbuilder$i;
done
chown root:root /var/empty # /var/empty must be owned by root, fix permission after `adduser` modified it

             reply	other threads:[~2020-01-07 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-07 21:29 symphonia [this message]
2020-01-08 12:34 ` bug#39023: binary installation manual doesn't work on Alpine Linux Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-22  3:53   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-01-22 19:42     ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-22 19:58       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-01-22 20:03         ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-02-19 15:56           ` zimoun
2020-01-22  1:44 ` bug#39023: adduser/addgroup vs useradd/groupadd zimoun
2020-01-22  4:03   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-01-22  8:31     ` zimoun
2020-04-23 11:55 ` bug#39023: binary installation manual doesn't work on Alpine Linux Vincent Legoll
2020-04-23 13:29   ` zimoun
2020-04-23 14:15     ` Vincent Legoll

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