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 14:49:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw9cmh75.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGKZdmYOgpPXZ-t3zuGqvJvO2chQG6xcM5HOX-QnC=FhzfwXrA@mail.gmail.com> (rohit yadav's message of "Thu, 5 Jan 2017 18:59:48 -0600")
Hello!
rohit yadav <rohityadav@utexas.edu> skribis:
> I am using guix for sometime now and I must admit, it is very clean
> compared to nix. However, I want to install it on system where I do not
> have root permission. Is is possible? If so, how?
It is possible, but currently inconvenient and brittle, as noted at the
bottom of:
https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Build-Environment-Setup.html
The problems are:
1. you’d be producing binaries for, say, /home/rohit/gnu/store instead
of /gnu/store, so you’d have to build everything by yourself since
the substitutes from hydra.gnu.org are for use in /gnu/store;
2. you’d have no build isolation and long file names, which is likely
to break builds here and there (things will use stuff from /usr/bin
and /lib, shebangs will be longer than the kernel-imposed limit,
etc.)
There have been discussions to improve the situation, and work in that
direction will hopefully start this year¹. The preferred approach will
be the “user namespace” feature of the kernel Linux; does your system
support it, out of curiosity?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
¹ See the discussion that starts at
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-10/msg00947.html>.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-06 13:49 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 [this message]
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
2017-01-06 23:26 ` rohit yadav
2017-01-07 21:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
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