Re: which of the two ArchLinux PKGBUILDs is better ? -- guix on Arch su errors

Re: which of the two ArchLinux PKGBUILDs is better ? -- guix on Arch su errors

[alt.ep-co5h6f0t]

> ArchLinux installers of guix should be aware that the standard size of
> /tmp on a 4 GB computer is too small for a full install of guix.
>
> Please enlarge your swap file and resize /tmp to like 20 GB, else
> you will repeatedly break during
>
> guix package -i hello
>
> After those mods I successfully ran guix on Manjaro (Arch derivate).

What exactly goes wrong when /tmp is less that 4 GB? There are a handful
of packages that require more than 4 GB of storage while building, but I
don't believe any of them are required to build hello.


after 
guix package -i hello

there was 3 hours of building on a desktop machine. looked like a
make world
build was going on.

I wonder why, since on a guixSD it installing hello was much faster.


also beginners should be advised to make sure that  `locale`  does not
print any errors. export LC_... vars in bashrc so locale is 100 percent
OK   BEFORE you go to install guix.

Else you will run into `cannot set locale` error repeatedly.

Re: which of the two ArchLinux PKGBUILDs is better ? -- guix on Arch su errors

[Thompson, David]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 5:49 AM,  <alt.ep-co5h6f0t@yopmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ArchLinux installers of guix should be aware that the standard size of
>> /tmp on a 4 GB computer is too small for a full install of guix.
>>
>> Please enlarge your swap file and resize /tmp to like 20 GB, else
>> you will repeatedly break during
>>
>> guix package -i hello
>>
>> After those mods I successfully ran guix on Manjaro (Arch derivate).
>
> What exactly goes wrong when /tmp is less that 4 GB? There are a handful
> of packages that require more than 4 GB of storage while building, but I
> don't believe any of them are required to build hello.
>
>
> after
> guix package -i hello
>
> there was 3 hours of building on a desktop machine. looked like a
> make world
> build was going on.
>
> I wonder why, since on a guixSD it installing hello was much faster.

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