Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Mark H Weaver writes: […] > Ricardo Wurmus writes: […] >> I see. Unfortunately you will end up having to compile everything from >> source, C library, GCC,… — all of it. When using a different store >> location it is impossible to use pre-built binaries, unfortunately. > > If one is able to o

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-04 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > rohit yadav writes: > >>> Do you want to build everything from source on your system or do you >>> prefer to use binaries from the Guix project’s build farms? Do you have >>> access to user namespaces / can you use “unshare” for file system >>> shenanigans?

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-03 Thread Chris Marusich
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > When using a different store > location it is impossible to use pre-built binaries, unfortunately. Nitpick: it is possible to use pre-built binaries when using a custom store location, if the substitutes were built for the same store location. But since the build farm o

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread rohit yadav
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 4:50 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > rohit yadav writes: > > >> Do you want to build everything from source on your system or do you > >> prefer to use binaries from the Guix project’s build farms? Do you have > >> access to user namespaces / can you use “unshare” for file s

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread rohit yadav
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 4:37 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Hi Rohit, > > > Unfortunately, I am stuck at Centos6 which uses old > > kernel 2.6.32-696.el6.x86_64. I am able to install nix on this system at > > non-root location. It works fine but NIx community has decided to use 2.0 > > which only wo

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
rohit yadav writes: >> Do you want to build everything from source on your system or do you >> prefer to use binaries from the Guix project’s build farms? Do you have >> access to user namespaces / can you use “unshare” for file system >> shenanigans? >> > I need to build guix for non-root loc

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Rohit, > Unfortunately, I am stuck at Centos6 which uses old > kernel 2.6.32-696.el6.x86_64. I am able to install nix on this system at > non-root location. It works fine but NIx community has decided to use 2.0 > which only works on newer kernel. Therefore, I have to now backport several > p

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, > I am trying to prepare guix for installing at non-root location. I have > followed the documentation available here: > https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/INSTALL.org#error-in-procedure-scm-error-no-code-for-module-gcrypt-hash I’d just like to note that this is not official d

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread rohit yadav
Ricardo, Thanks for pointing that out. I have gone through that. However, none of those options are applicable here. All of those at some point requires root permission. The proot is the only option but it is terribly slow and also several time does not work with dispatching jobs etc (do not have

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread rohit yadav
Hi Ricardo, On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 3:33 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Hi, > > > I am trying to prepare guix for installing at non-root location. I have > > followed the documentation available here: > > > https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/INSTALL.org#error-in-procedure-scm-error-

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
rohit yadav writes: > I am trying to prepare guix for installing at non-root location. I have > followed the documentation available here: > https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/INSTALL.org#error-in-procedure-scm-error-no-code-for-module-gcrypt-hash I forgot to say that we discusse

[Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread rohit yadav
Hi, First of all congratulations on releasing 1.0.0. I have been waiting for this for a long time. I am trying to prepare guix for installing at non-root location. I have followed the documentation available here: https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/INSTALL.org#error-in-procedure-scm