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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Cc: 42849-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#42849] [PATCH 3/3] installer: Run the installation inside a container.
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2020 22:17:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736403pco.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imcwtdkd.fsf@gnu.org> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Wed, 02 Sep 2020 17:15:30 +0200")

Hi!

Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> skribis:

>> So perhaps we can settle on the solution you sent, but let’s see if we
>> can move complexity out of sight.  For example, if we can arrange to
>> have a ‘fork+exec-command/container’ procedure that can be passed the
>> PID of a namespace, such that the ‘start’ method of guix-daemon is just
>> a few more lines its current definition, I’ll be happy.
>>
>> How does that sound?
>
> Sounds fine! I added a "fork+exec-command/container" in (gnu build
> shepherd) module, that uses "container-excursion" to enter the
> namespaces of the process passed as argument.
>
> I also took your other remarks into account and pushed this
> serie. Thanks a lot for diving into this harsh stuff :).

Awesome!

> Locally, the installer tests behave fine, but I'll monitor the CI to see
> how it goes.
>
> Now, the only installation test failure I'm aware of is
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/41948. The good news, is that I have a Guile
> patch that seem to solve it[1].

Yes, it’s still on my radar (started looking into it the other day,
without any tangible result).

Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-02 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-13 12:23 [bug#42849] [PATCH 0/3] installer: Run the installation inside a container Mathieu Othacehe
2020-08-13 12:34 ` [bug#42849] [PATCH 1/3] install: Factorize cow-store procedure Mathieu Othacehe
2020-08-13 12:34   ` [bug#42849] [PATCH 2/3] linux-container: Add a jail? argument Mathieu Othacehe
2020-08-30 19:53     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-08-31  6:27       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-08-31 13:36         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-07 22:02           ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-10  7:46             ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-09-11 15:07               ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-08-13 12:34   ` [bug#42849] [PATCH 3/3] installer: Run the installation inside a container Mathieu Othacehe
2020-08-30 20:40     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-08-31  6:44       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-09-01  8:48         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-02 15:15           ` bug#42849: " Mathieu Othacehe
2020-09-02 20:17             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-09-02 21:25             ` [bug#42849] " Ludovic Courtès
2020-08-30 19:51   ` [bug#42849] [PATCH 1/3] install: Factorize cow-store procedure Ludovic Courtès

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