Hi,
I'm having trouble importing a package from hackage, so I tried to debug the import source code. After cloning guix I found that I can't start a pure environment: guix environment guix --pure --ad-hoc help2man git strace Command 'lesspipe' is available in the following places * /bin/lesspipe * /usr/bin/lesspipe The command could not be located because '/bin:/usr/bin' is not included in the PATH environment variable. lesspipe: command not found If I use --container it works: $guix environment guix --pure --ad-hoc help2man git strace lesspipe --container me@mypc ~/guix/git/guix [env]$ but then I have problems connecting with the daemond: ./pre-inst-env guix build hello guix build: error: failed to connect to`/usr/local/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory (also there isn't any file in my user environment with that name) So I have to run guix environment with --network and start one: $guix environment guix --pure --ad-hoc help2man git strace lesspipe --container me@mypc ~/guix/git/guix [env]$ and then ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon & and ./pre-inst-env guix build hello it appears to work, but really I don't know if i'm making a mess at this point... I can't pass --build-users-group=guixbuild because it doesn't exist inside the container. And besides more that one daemon in the same store shurely produces nasty race conditions. I think that running inside a container should be the way to do it but using the store in read-only mode to avoid installing stuff (or maybe that is not a problem since it can be GC later?) or providing a way to connect with the running daemon. So i'm asking if the last things that I do are safe, and should be included in the manual, because it take me a while to figure it out. or we have a problem with non containerized environment for guix development. Any ideas what might be the problem? or there isn't any need even to start a guix environment... (do not think so) COD
