Re: Guix on other distros: Gentoo. [You run Gentoo? Please help testing.]

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 07:02:14PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> 
> The disfunctional thing currently is:
> 
> guixbuilder01 ... guixbuilder10 get created and added to guixbuild
> group.
> 
> Post-setup I let root authorize hydra's pubkey, then I run
> `rc-service start guix' which sadly makes the terminal unusable if you
> don't append "&".
> 
> running guix pull then as root downloads happen, but as soon as builder
> should start, it fails:
> 
> shikahr ~ # guix pull
> 
> Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.RpedfI
> From http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
>  ….tar.gz                                   1.1MiB/s 00:10 | 10.3MiB
>  transferred
>  unpacking
>  '/gnu/store/h33fva5hvrw7z99vrn3ivnh07mgg55qc-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
>  substitute: updating list of substitutes from
>  'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>  The following derivations will be built:
>     /gnu/store/yw3dzq3nlngki5bd8z5yp1aslvzsjh1n-guix-latest.drv
>     /gnu/store/2gyrssyswj0p2z6yr7938kln20piy4w6-module-import.drv
>     /gnu/store/jb6ir2q5j8lwmdcqlhs7c4vdkgllcjga-module-import-compiled.drv
>   building path(s)
>    `/gnu/store/35xw5kccyq76v8zgkdrnx1z9w8s6ll7m-module-import'
>     guix pull: error: build failed: the build users group
>           `guixbuild' has no members
>           shikahr ~ # id -nG guixbuilder01
>           guixbuild
>           shikahr ~ # id -nG guixbuilder1
>           id: guixbuilder1: no such user
>           
> 
> I know the openrc service is total crap because if you don't kill every
> instance of guix-daemon before shutdown/reboot, you have almost 30
> minutes delay.
> OpenRC services are not my favorit thing to write, but it should just
> work.
> 
> Also strange enough a sequence from 1 - 10 in ebuild creates users 01 -
> 10.
> 
> -- 
> ♥Ⓐ  ng0
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> 

one thing you could try as a work around is to only make 9 builders, or
to number the builders from 10 to 19.

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