From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: 52517@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52517: inconstency with offloading
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:52:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfu4g3s0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y24lol6r.fsf@gmail.com> (zimoun's message of "Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:02:52 +0100")
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Hi,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> The manual provides [1] the example:
>
> (build-machine
> (name "armeight.example.org")
> (systems (list "aarch64-linux"))
> (host-key "ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza…")
> (user "alice")
> (private-key
> (string-append (getenv "HOME")
> "/.ssh/identity-for-guix")))
>
>
> but what is not clear is 'getenv' from who. Concretly, adding 'pk' it
> reads:
>
> $ guix offload test
>
> ;;; ("/home/simon")
> guix offload: testing 2 build machines defined in '/etc/guix/machines.scm'...
>
>
> however, when really building with offload:
>
> $ guix build -L /tmp/mine r-cipr
> The following derivation will be built:
> /gnu/store/mzixy5hhx79xx33k03acaasml87c0knc-r-cipr-0.1.0-1.4b01bb8.drv
>
> ;;; ("/root")
This is because guix-daemon spawns ‘guix offload’ as root.
But yeah, I agree that the example contributes to the confusion.
How about changing the manual as shown below?
Ludo’.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 43549da388..9c1f30e83f 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -1250,9 +1250,10 @@ The @file{/etc/guix/machines.scm} file typically looks like this:
(systems (list "aarch64-linux"))
(host-key "ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza@dots{}")
(user "alice")
- (private-key
- (string-append (getenv "HOME")
- "/.ssh/identity-for-guix"))))
+
+ ;; Remember 'guix offload' is spawned by
+ ;; 'guix-daemon' as root.
+ (private-key "/root/.ssh/identity-for-guix")))
@end lisp
@noindent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-03 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-15 17:02 bug#52517: inconstency with offloading zimoun
2021-12-16 4:09 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-01-03 16:52 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-01-03 17:16 ` zimoun
2022-01-03 18:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-03 19:19 ` zimoun
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