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Subject: Re: Chrooting into GuixSD
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:01:50 +0200
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To: Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>
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Hello,

Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de> skribis:

> You can interact with the daemon:
>
>   cd /path/to/guix/root
>   sudo mount --bind /dev dev
>   sudo mount --bind /proc proc
>   sudo mount --bind /sys sys
>   sudo unshare -m sudo chroot . /run/current-system/profile/bin/bash
>   source /etc/profile
>
>   guix-daemon --build-users-group=3Dguixbuild &
>
> If you then `su` to a plain user, do `source /etc/profile` again.
>
> I think all of `guix pull`. `reconfigure` and `package` search,
> install and update worked here with that approach. `guix download`
> failed due to nss certificates, until I added:
>   export SSL_CERT_DIR=3D"$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs"
>   export
> SSL_CERT_FILE=3D"$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"
>   export GIT_SSL_CAINFO=3D"$SSL_CERT_FILE"

I haven=E2=80=99t tried, but something that would be equivalent to booting =
into
the system is:

  chroot /path/to/guixsd
  /gnu/store/*-guile-2.0.3/bin/guile /run/current-system/boot

It may interfere badly with the running system (like when it tries to
bring up ttys), but maybe it=E2=80=99s OK?

Ludo=E2=80=99.