From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nancy-Anne Cianci Subject: Re: which of the two ArchLinux PKGBUILDs is better ? -- guix on Arch success Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:50:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: <95b51db7500c5629958c3c6203423687@dizum.com> <20160906202216.GA3686@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51723) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdyFw-0000Xp-T2 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 07:00:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdyFs-000889-WC for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 07:00:20 -0500 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44657 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdyFs-00087S-Op for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 07:00:16 -0500 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cdyFg-00086n-D7 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:00:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20160906202216.GA3686@jasmine> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org On 06.09.2016 22:22, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 09:04:32PM +0200, alt.ep-co5h6f0t@yopmail.com wrote: >> ArchLinux installers of guix should be aware that the standard size of >> /tmp on a 4 GB computer is too small for a full install of guix. >> >> Please enlarge your swap file and resize /tmp to like 20 GB, else >> you will repeatedly break during >> >> guix package -i hello >> >> After those mods I successfully ran guix on Manjaro (Arch derivate). > > What exactly goes wrong when /tmp is less that 4 GB? There are a handful > of packages that require more than 4 GB of storage while building, but I > don't believe any of them are required to build hello. I believe the problem was that one line was missed during install and then no binary install was made, everything was built instead. sth. about auth or such.