Prerequesits GuixSD

Prerequesits GuixSD

[Fabian Boucsein]

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Hello Guix developer,

i came across Ludovics Fosdem talk and was instantly
fascinated. This led to a strong "WANT TO TRY NOW".
But the system build broke. I used a Lenovo T60 with
just 1GB RAM. What hardware do i need to build a Guix
system? I used the very tiny system configuration that
i found on the installer USB with slight changes.
Since i am living in germany i wanted to use de_DE but
this was not possible.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Cheers,
Fabian

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Re: Prerequesits GuixSD

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Fabian,

> But the system build broke.

What exactly does this mean?

> I used a Lenovo T60 with just 1GB RAM. What hardware do i need to
> build a Guix system? I used the very tiny system configuration that i
> found on the installer USB with slight changes.

I use the Guix System Distribution (GuixSD) on both a T60 and an X200s.
I did *not* compile everything from scratch but used binary substitutes
for the vast majority of packages.

Unless you *want* to build *everything* from scratch, be sure to enable
binary substitutes by authorising the build farm hydra.gnu.org with:

  guix import --authorize < /path/to/hydras.public.key

> Since i am living in germany i wanted to use de_DE but this was not
> possible.

You can most definitely use a different locale, but you will have to
install the glibc-locales package or else applications won't be able to
find the appropriate strings.

~~ Ricardo

Re: Prerequesits GuixSD

[Amirouche BOUBEKKI]

Le mardi 19 mai 2015 à 10:55 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus a écrit :
> Hi Fabian,
> 
> > But the system build broke.
> 
> What exactly does this mean?
> 
> > I used a Lenovo T60 with just 1GB RAM. What hardware do i need to
> > build a Guix system? I used the very tiny system configuration that i
> > found on the installer USB with slight changes.
> 
> I use the Guix System Distribution (GuixSD) on both a T60 and an X200s.
> I did *not* compile everything from scratch but used binary substitutes
> for the vast majority of packages.

Here on a glublub X60 it installed correctly with substitues. There is
XFCE and WM maker as WM. And it works quiet good as second workstation.
GSD hasn't yet, all the s/spies/daemons that other distros can have ;)

> 
> Unless you *want* to build *everything* from scratch, be sure to enable
> binary substitutes by authorising the build farm hydra.gnu.org with:
> 
>   guix import --authorize < /path/to/hydras.public.key
> 
> > Since i am living in germany i wanted to use de_DE but this was not
> > possible.
> 
> You can most definitely use a different locale, but you will have to
> install the glibc-locales package or else applications won't be able to
> find the appropriate strings.
> 
> ~~ Ricardo
> 

Re: Prerequesits GuixSD

[Adam Pribyl]

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On Tue, 19 May 2015, Amirouche BOUBEKKI wrote:

> Le mardi 19 mai 2015 à 10:55 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus a écrit :
>> Hi Fabian,
>>
>>> But the system build broke.
>>
>> What exactly does this mean?
>>
>>> I used a Lenovo T60 with just 1GB RAM. What hardware do i need to
>>> build a Guix system? I used the very tiny system configuration that i
>>> found on the installer USB with slight changes.
>>
>> I use the Guix System Distribution (GuixSD) on both a T60 and an X200s.
>> I did *not* compile everything from scratch but used binary substitutes
>> for the vast majority of packages.
>
> Here on a glublub X60 it installed correctly with substitues. There is
> XFCE and WM maker as WM. And it works quiet good as second workstation.
> GSD hasn't yet, all the s/spies/daemons that other distros can have ;)

This is it, with substitutes, it works, even on 1GB of RAM. But as soon as 
you want to compile, then 1GB of RAM is not enought. I even used 1GB swap 
and still no go.

The question is something I am interest in too - what is the minimum to 
compile the guix(SD)? Does anybody know?

>> ~~ Ricardo

Adam Pribyl

Re: Prerequesits GuixSD

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:

> Unless you *want* to build *everything* from scratch, be sure to enable
> binary substitutes by authorising the build farm hydra.gnu.org with:
>
>   guix import --authorize < /path/to/hydras.public.key

Note that this is the default on GuixSD.

>> Since i am living in germany i wanted to use de_DE but this was not
>> possible.
>
> You can most definitely use a different locale, but you will have to
> install the glibc-locales package or else applications won't be able to
> find the appropriate strings.

On GuixSD, installing ‘glibc-locales’ is unnecessary.  Instead, the
admin should set the ‘locale’ field of the ‘operating-system’
declaration (see
<http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Locales.html>.)

Here, it should be enough to do:

  (operating-system
    ;; ...
    (locale "de_DE.utf8"))

HTH,
Ludo’.