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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Compiling guix 0.3 on a fedora 8 planetlab node
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 05:37:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874na62obx.fsf@tines.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877gf31izv.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:05:40 +0200")

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Matthias Wachs <wachs@net.in.tum.de> skribis:
>
>>> How did it complain exactly?  Is it running as ‘root’, as per
>>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Setting-Up-the-Daemon>?
>>> 
>>> The ability to run build processes in a chroot and under separate UIDs
>>> is essential to achieve reproducibility.
>>
>> The basic issue is: 
>> I cannot add a builder group since on these machines I don't have the
>> "groupadd" command ... limitations of the image/testbed
>
> You may have ‘addgroup’ instead, no?

Failing that, you could manually edit /etc/{passwd,group,shadow}.

     Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-31  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-28 15:45 Compiling guix 0.3 on a fedora 8 planetlab node Matthias Wachs
2013-08-29 15:46 ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-08-29 20:02   ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-29 20:13     ` Andreas Enge
2013-08-29 20:15       ` Andreas Enge
2013-08-29 21:31         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-30 10:01           ` Matthias Wachs
2013-08-30 11:09             ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-30 11:18               ` Matthias Wachs
2013-08-30 12:05                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-31  9:37                   ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2013-09-10  7:14           ` Matthias Wachs
2013-09-10 17:37             ` Ludovic Courtès

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