Re: How to install guix without root permission

[rohit yadav <rohityadav@utexas.edu>]

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​Thanks for the reply. ​The proot (https://proot-me.github.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.

I am using kernel 4+, which supports namespaces. This reminds if there is
any effort to provide a lxc container for guixSD.

Thanks,
Rohit

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> rohit yadav <rohityadav@utexas.edu> skribis:
>
> > I am using guix for sometime now and I must admit, it is very clean
> > compared to nix. However, I want to install it on system where I do not
> > have root permission. Is is possible? If so, how?
>
> It is possible, but currently inconvenient and brittle, as noted at the
> bottom of:
>
>   https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Build-
> Environment-Setup.html
>
> The problems are:
>
>   1. you’d be producing binaries for, say, /home/rohit/gnu/store instead
>      of /gnu/store, so you’d have to build everything by yourself since
>      the substitutes from hydra.gnu.org are for use in /gnu/store;
>
>   2. you’d have no build isolation and long file names, which is likely
>      to break builds here and there (things will use stuff from /usr/bin
>      and /lib, shebangs will be longer than the kernel-imposed limit,
>      etc.)
>
> There have been discussions to improve the situation, and work in that
> direction will hopefully start this year¹.  The preferred approach will
> be the “user namespace” feature of the kernel Linux; does your system
> support it, out of curiosity?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
> ¹ See the discussion that starts at
>   <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-10/msg00947.html>.
>

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