From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: which of the two ArchLinux PKGBUILDs is better ? -- guix on Arch success Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 16:22:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20160906202216.GA3686@jasmine> References: <95b51db7500c5629958c3c6203423687@dizum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57786) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhNkw-0002n7-AS for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:18:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhNks-0000ge-Um for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:18:10 -0400 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:49302) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhNkr-0000eq-OE for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:18:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <95b51db7500c5629958c3c6203423687@dizum.com> 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: alt.ep-co5h6f0t@yopmail.com Cc: help-guix@gnu.org 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.