Heya, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 04:40:30PM -0200, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: >> 2017-12-04T10:07:40+0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > The problem is that the (gnutls) module is not in the search path of >> > ‘guix substitute’. >> > >> > Usually the solution is to start the daemon using something like: >> > >> > sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon … >> > >> > so that ‘guix-daemon’ inherits the correct values for ‘GUILE_LOAD_PATH’, >> > etc. >> > >> > Does that work for you? >> > >> > We used to have this suggestion in the doc, but it was reverted in >> > commit 73a203450d21241eca50375aeb26fb418b287414. Leo, do you think we >> > can reinstate it? I’m not sure why it was reverted in the first place. > > I missed this request previously :/ > > Originally, I reverted the suggestion because it was causing problems > for some users on #guix, and I thought it was risky to propagate the > user's environment into a privileged context. > > But perhaps it's not any more risky than using sudo, in general. > > Ludo, please let me know if you'd still like me to reinstate the advice > to use `sudo -E`. I think you can reinstate it, perhaps with a word of caution explaining what -E does? Thanks, Ludo’.
