From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: rohit yadav <rohityadav@utexas.edu>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to install guix without root permission
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:18:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r34gkyj2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGKZdmacg1gvKoWwBnCJ1v-2bDBzHKGCpBBRDXJJ9ZCsWA2ZFA@mail.gmail.com> (rohit yadav's message of "Fri, 6 Jan 2017 07:59:44 -0600")
rohit yadav <rohityadav@utexas.edu> skribis:
> Thanks for the reply. The proot (https://proot-me.github.io/) project
> allows you to map $HOME/gnu/store to /gnu/store etc. However, where I am
> struggling is the guixbuild users and group creation, and running guix
> daemon.
Yes, though PRoot relies on syscall interception using ptrace(2), which
is inefficient (which may or may not be a problem, depending on the
application).
> I am using kernel 4+, which supports namespaces.
Yes, but some distributions compile it out or turn it off by default.
See
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/scripts/environment.scm#n517>,
for a way to check whether user namespaces are enabled.
> This reminds if there is any effort to provide a lxc container for
> guixSD.
Not that I know of, but I don’t think it would help the non-root use
case.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-06 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-06 0:59 How to install guix without root permission rohit yadav
2017-01-06 13:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-06 13:59 ` rohit yadav
2017-01-06 14:18 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-01-06 15:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-06 15:18 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-01-06 23:26 ` rohit yadav
2017-01-07 21:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
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