From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 23:37:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87bm0kwnag.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87ftpwwq9l.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMJOf-0005yu-UT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 17:37:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMJOf-0001cH-0U for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 17:37:41 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hMJOe-0001bd-KN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2019 17:37:40 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: rohit yadav Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Rohit, > Unfortunately, I am stuck at Centos6 which uses old > kernel 2.6.32-696.el6.x86_64. I am able to install nix on this system at > non-root location. It works fine but NIx community has decided to use 2.0 > which only works on newer kernel. Therefore, I have to now backport sever= al > packages. Making it really hard because lot of packages are broken. Its > manageable but not ideal. Whereas the guix seems to be independent of > kernel (atleast that is my assumption so far). I feel your pain. I still need to sometimes touch CentOS 6 systems. Guix is largely kernel-independent but the GNU C library is not. It has a minimum kernel requirement of 3.x (I don=E2=80=99t know the exact version= ). We have patched it to accept the heavily patched RHEL 6 kernel, because it does seem to provide backports of all the features the GNU C library depends on. You may run into some problems with some packages, though. (I think there were problems with JDK and Qt, and I=E2=80=99m not sure if we managed to completely work around them.) > I would also like to suggest an alternative to a root-less installation. >> At the HPC cluster where I work we run the guix-daemon as root on a >> virtual machine where /gnu/store is a writable NFS share. Every machine >> that uses Guix only needs to mount this share as read-only. >> > > This option is not available as I stated earlier, I do not have the root > permission. That=E2=80=99s a pity! -- Ricardo