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
next prev parent 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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