* Non-root installs.
@ 2020-07-26 0:02 Diagon
2020-07-27 9:15 ` Roel Janssen
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From: Diagon @ 2020-07-26 0:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-guix
Hey all - I tried on IRC, but was told that this might be a better place. I'm wondering if someone here has experience with a non-root install. Optimally, is there by this point a guix-install.sh for non-root? I know it's doable, eg: https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/GUIX-NO-ROOT.org
I was able to get my sysadmin to create a writable /gnu, which I gather will allow me to install binaries, rather than recomplie everything, since I'll have the right path. Now that I've read the install script, I see that it also uses /var/guix. Do I need to ask for that, or is there a way around it, by putting it in /gnu/var, maybe? I assume I can put /root/.config/guix in my home directory, but I also see we need a guixbuild group. How can I get away without this and still run the server manually?
All input appreciated!
/D
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* Re: Non-root installs.
2020-07-26 0:02 Non-root installs Diagon
@ 2020-07-27 9:15 ` Roel Janssen
2020-09-25 13:03 ` Joshua Branson
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Roel Janssen @ 2020-07-27 9:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Diagon, help-guix
On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 17:02 -0700, Diagon wrote:
> Hey all - I tried on IRC, but was told that this might be a better
> place. I'm wondering if someone here has experience with a non-root
> install. Optimally, is there by this point a guix-install.sh for
> non-root? I know it's doable, eg:
> https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/GUIX-NO-ROOT.org
>
> I was able to get my sysadmin to create a writable /gnu, which I
> gather will allow me to install binaries, rather than recomplie
> everything, since I'll have the right path. Now that I've read the
> install script, I see that it also uses /var/guix. Do I need to ask
> for that, or is there a way around it, by putting it in /gnu/var,
> maybe? I assume I can put /root/.config/guix in my home directory,
> but I also see we need a guixbuild group. How can I get away without
> this and still run the server manually?
>
> All input appreciated!
> /D
You can do "export GUIX_STATE_DIRECTORY=/gnu/profiles" to avoid using
/var/guix.
On our cluster install we have a shared /gnu filesystem across our
nodes, and we use one node on which "guix-daemon" runs as root.
On the other nodes we set the following:
export GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET=guix://<address>:<port>
That way, you can isolate the "guix-daemon" node, which makes it more
reasonable because now you only need super user privileges on a
specific (isolated) node.
For single-machine instances I don't know how to make this work.
Kind regards,
Roel Janssen
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