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rohit yadav <rohityadav@utexas.edu> skribis:

> =E2=80=8BThanks for the reply. =E2=80=8BThe proot (https://proot-me.githu=
b.io/) project
> allows you to map $HOME/gnu/store to /gnu/store etc. However, where I am
> struggling is the guixbuild users and group creation, and running guix
> daemon.

Yes, though PRoot relies on syscall interception using ptrace(2), which
is inefficient (which may or may not be a problem, depending on the
application).

> I am using kernel 4+, which supports namespaces.

Yes, but some distributions compile it out or turn it off by default.
See
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/scripts/environment.sc=
m#n517>,
for a way to check whether user namespaces are enabled.

> This reminds if there is any effort to provide a lxc container for
> guixSD.

Not that I know of, but I don=E2=80=99t think it would help the non-root use
case.

Ludo=E2=80=99.