From: ludovic.courtes@inria.fr (Ludovic Courtès)
To: YOANN P <yoann_mac_donald@hotmail.com>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Include Proot-static with binary releases
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:44:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lggva1l8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB6P18901MB002294F4927B235F0556C0EFDBE90@DB6P18901MB0022.EURP189.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (YOANN P.'s message of "Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:52:39 +0000")
Hello,
YOANN P <yoann_mac_donald@hotmail.com> skribis:
> Is there any plan to include "proot-static" with Guix Binary releases ?
Good question!
> My request is motivated by the fact i'm looking for a way to use/install Guix only with the bin release on a non-privileged environnement (HPC, non root user) without the need to use guix pack on another computer to create a "pack" only for this package for every architecture i would like to install Guix on.
>
> This way, if namespaces are not available, we could use Guix with Proot without any more efforts.
Indeed. (I assume you read
<https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2017/10/using-guix-without-being-root/>,
which is about running software from a pack, rather than running Guix
itself. Pjotr has a very good writeup on this topic, which includes
running Guix itself under PRoot:
<https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/GUIX-NO-ROOT.org>.)
Including proot-static makes a lot of sense and easily done (it adds
3 MiB to the result.) We’d need to document it properly though,
probably with a new section under “Setting Up the Daemon”. We could
mention user namespaces as another option for non-root users.
Thoughts? Ricardo?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-18 10:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-17 21:52 Include Proot-static with binary releases YOANN P
2018-01-18 10:44 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-01-18 14:21 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-01-22 17:45 ` Efraim Flashner
2018-01-23 14:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-23 16:53 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-03-25 9:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-21 14:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-21 21:03 ` Pjotr Prins
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