From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Cook, Malcolm" <MEC@stowers.org>
Cc: 'Guix-devel' <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
'Pjotr Prins' <pjotr.public66@thebird.nl>,
"'bio-packaging@mailman.open-bio.org'"
<bio-packaging@mailman.open-bio.org>
Subject: Re: Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:45:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si8pfmqg.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dee0e6e156fa44b18fbcbc3ca68795b7@exchsrv2.sgc.loc>
Cook, Malcolm <MEC@stowers.org> writes:
> Also, you discussed need for setting NIX_STATE_DIR. This should not
> be needed if guix was already installed with configuration of
> --localstatedir=/guix/var (with /guix being nfs mounted), right?
NIX_STATE_DIR is used to override localstate at runtime. If you are
happy with the localstatedir (defined at configure time) you do not need
NIX_STATE_DIR. After my vacation I’ll take some time to think about how
to allow users to run “guix” on cluster nodes to manipulate their
profiles — and how to reliably set this all up. I’m planning on
documenting this, both in a specialised form for my blog and in a more
generic fashion for the Guix manual.
> Ricardo also wrote "For ‘guix package’ to work,
> /gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user must be shared read-write (over NFS)
> with correct UID mapping." - I really don't understand this and tried
> to elicit feedback in
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00216.html
> - Can anyone give me clarification on this. I though the guix daemon
> is going to manage these profiles.
I don’t remember writing this or the context in which I wrote this
(could it be that Ludovic wrote this?) — looking at the code for
guix/scripts/package.scm it seems that the client performs some of the
symlink switching when switching generations (e.g. after installing a
new package). For that to work it would need write permission to the
user’s profile directory.
(I could be completely wrong here. That’s not how it’s set up here and
I haven’t yet tested a configuration like this.)
~~ Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-15 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-18 20:22 Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix) Cook, Malcolm
2015-06-19 8:06 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-06-19 11:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-06-25 6:40 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-06-19 11:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-08 19:20 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-08 19:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-06-19 17:48 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-06-24 19:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-08 18:03 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-08 19:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-07-10 8:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-11 0:48 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-13 16:45 ` Test suite failures Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-18 3:04 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-18 15:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-11 0:54 ` Using a shared Guix store (was RE: [Bio-packaging] testing out guix) Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-15 15:45 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2015-07-15 19:49 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-15 20:28 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-07-18 9:26 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-18 15:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-07-19 9:18 ` Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
2015-07-19 9:33 ` Andreas Enge
2015-07-20 22:37 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-21 20:23 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-07-21 20:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-07-23 22:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
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