Great Malcolm, One thing I was advocating today (compared to, for example, easybuild, modules or homebrew) is that once you create a GNU Guix package it will live on *all* future Linux systems (and perhaps beyond). It being a GNU project I can only imagine it becoming ubiquous.
Pj. On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 07:49:53PM +0000, Cook, Malcolm wrote: > > Cook, Malcolm <m...@stowers.org> writes: > > > > > Also, you discussed need for setting NIX_STATE_DIR. This should not > > > be needed if guix was already installed with configuration of > > > --localstatedir=/guix/var (with /guix being nfs mounted), right? > > > > NIX_STATE_DIR is used to override localstate at runtime. If you are happy > > with the localstatedir (defined at configure time) you do not need > > NIX_STATE_DIR. After my vacation I’ll take some time to think about how to > > allow users to run “guix” on cluster nodes to manipulate their profiles — > > and > > how to reliably set this all up. I’m planning on documenting this, both in > > a > > specialised form for my blog and in a more generic fashion for the Guix > > manual. > > Great - thanks for clarifying - I am looking forward to reading about this > further in both places. > > I will eventually care about the cluster use case, but for now my first aim > is to ensure that users at my institute can expect an identical experience in > using guix regardless of which of our multiple shared-used computational > servers they are logged into. > > > > > > Ricardo also wrote "For ‘guix package’ to work, > > > /gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user must be shared read-write (over NFS) > > > with correct UID mapping." - I really don't understand this and tried > > > to elicit feedback in > > > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00216.html > > > - Can anyone give me clarification on this. I though the guix daemon > > > is going to manage these profiles. > > > > I don’t remember writing this or the context in which I wrote this (could > > it be > > that Ludovic wrote this?) — looking at the code for guix/scripts/package.scm > > it seems that the client performs some of the symlink switching when > > switching generations (e.g. after installing a new package). For that to > > work it > > would need write permission to the user’s profile directory. > > Ricardo I am sorry, you are correct, I was quoting Ludovic in a thread where > you replied https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2015-07/msg00042.html > > > (I could be completely wrong here. That’s not how it’s set up here and I > > haven’t yet tested a configuration like this.) > > I hope to chime in further with a big WOOHOO once I have this configuration > working.... > > Thanks again for your helps... > > ~Malcolm > > > > > ~~ Ricardo > --
