From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix in single-user mode (degenerated?)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 00:43:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150601224342.GA24331@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3pvfbid.fsf@gnu.org>
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:56:42PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > There are situations where I can't get root - mostly on scientific
> > cluster environments. I don't think it is a priority, but it would be
> > a good to have if it works.
>
> Yes, that’s an issue. Unfortunately, users would sacrifice
> reproducibility by running the daemon as non-root (and we would get
> reports about builds that fail unexpectedly), and using a non-standard
> store directory may also hit shebang length limits and so on.
>
> So I think we must bribe a bunch of HPC sysadmins ;-), get experience
> with real system-wide installations on such systems, and see what needs
> to be adjusted. Thanks to Ricardo and his lab we already have some
> feedback: <http://elephly.net/posts/2015-04-17-gnu-guix.html>.
It is a good writeup, indeed, and may help make a case. Somehow the
people who run clusters are not so enlightened.
> If you are in a position where you can experiment with such a setup,
> your experience would be invaluable!
I am not in a position to change things, but maybe others are. The
good news is that VMs are becoming more common and may drive change.
Give it another 5-10 years and I expect it to be less of an issue.
Pj.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-01 16:29 Guix in single-user mode (degenerated?) Pjotr Prins
2015-06-01 19:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-01 22:43 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
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