> I hope to chime in further with a big WOOHOO once I have this configuration
> working....
Not quite WOOHOO yet. Getting close.... Here is where I am:
I have built guix-0.8.2 on centOS7 passing all checks
However
./pre-inst-env guix package -i hello
Gives me
guix package: error: build failed: the build users group `guix-builder'
has no members
But, but, I do have a group `guix-builder`
I think the problem may be that my guix-builder group was defined in NIS
whereas its members are not in NIS.
I don't know the method that guix is using to detect group membership, but my
configuration seems to not respect it.
I am going to try putting guix-builder1-10 in NIS also and see if that helps,
but, while I wait for my sysadmin to help me, I thought I'd ask all y'all.
My setup now is like this:
/gnu is network shared mount rw everywhere
owned by NIS user guix
group owned by NIS group guix-builder
I configured the build with --prefix=/gnu
All tests pass.
The daemon is running as user `guix` on host ${GUIXHOST} (I welcome a better
suggestion for this host. Maybe just GUIX is better? Or GUIXMASTER?)
Build works:
> guix build hello
...
The following files will be downloaded:
/gnu/store/ydj867rdlz3p6lnnmbqn7jhvdf3i0dvi-hello-2.10
/gnu/store/hy2hi0zj5hrqkmkhpdxf04c9bcnlnsf9-glibc-2.21
...
603 operations
And confirmed:
/gnu/store/ydj867rdlz3p6lnnmbqn7jhvdf3i0dvi-hello-2.10/bin/hello
Hello, world
However trying to --install is not successful
/gnu/bin/guix package --install hello
accepted connection from pid 26597, uid 1232
error: while creating directory `/gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user/mec':
Permission denied
Please create the `/gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user/mec' directory, with
you as the owner.
Try "info '(guix) Invoking guix package'" for more information.
Which leads me to think the documentation is in error where it says "The
per-user directory is created when guix-daemon is started".
Creating it by hand (owned by guix, with write access to all) :
mkdir /gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user ## the doc says this should
happen by the daemon but not! FIXME! BUG?
chmod a+rwx /gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user
gets me further, and I did find the rest of the sentence to be correct: " and
the user sub-directory is created by guix package."
But --installing only gets a little further:
/gnu/bin/guix package --install hello
accepted connection from pid 31645, uid 1232
The following package will be installed:
hello 2.10 /gnu/store/ydj867rdlz3p6lnnmbqn7jhvdf3i0dvi-hello-2.10
The following derivations will be built:
/gnu/store/6cs8g6kq96zdwl25929l5s5y6gxk7hxs-profile.drv
/gnu/store/b1f6jwficry84qgigvkldkfyhlc2xhg2-ca-certificate-bundle.drv
/gnu/store/n2ks4dzmrcg9ghhrp6c6wsp57nib5rqf-info-dir.drv
The following files will be downloaded:
/gnu/store/kbf46vds6f7lp723xn62kgdaxmwc1jvi-module-import-compiled
/gnu/store/41wzbfhmb6j5yha508y30kwycivhpx9b-module-import
/gnu/store/ki6mvjqbf3nc8lfavwqfsrxqzi7qhf50-module-import
/gnu/store/jhbkpizpakgk5xzzpyrh15vaprqcarb8-module-import-compiled
guix package: error: build failed: the build users group `guix-builder'
has no members
Huh? Why
a) is it going to download and build derivations AGAIN !?!?
b) does it tell me "the build users group `guix-builder' has no members"
So, I am stymied, and welcome your kind assistance and observations.
I feel a YAHOO WAHOO coming on,
Malcolm
