Re: What is Guix garbage collector root aka gc root

2017-08-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Oleg, > 2. I need to build a package, but don't install it. Just preserve it > for offloading. Is “guix build --root=$HOME/.guix-profile PACKAGE” (run > as non root user) what I want? Or if not, what FILE in “--root=FILE” do > I need to pass? You can pass any file to “--root”. It will *cr

Re: Where to submit/discuss reproducible-related patches?

2017-08-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Ren, > I'm playing around with the reproducible issues recently. After some > investigation work, I tried fixing the unreproducible issues for three > packages, and sent the patches to the guix-patches (mentioned in the > guix manual) mailing list: Thank you for doing this important work! >

Re: Problems with GNU Parallel and ulimit

2017-08-13 Thread Ben Woodcroft
On 14/08/17 12:31, Arun Isaac wrote: Does `parallel' work for anybody? When I run $ ls | parallel echo I get the following error message, and nothing happens. It works fine for me using Guix on a foreign OS, and has since I can remember. ben

Problems with GNU Parallel and ulimit

2017-08-13 Thread Arun Isaac
Does `parallel' work for anybody? When I run $ ls | parallel echo I get the following error message, and nothing happens. parallel: Warning: No more processes: Decreasing number of running jobs to 1. parallel: Warning: Raising ulimit -u or /etc/security/limits.conf may help. parallel: Error: No

Where to submit/discuss reproducible-related patches?

2017-08-13 Thread Z. Ren
Hello Guix, I'm playing around with the reproducible issues recently. After some investigation work, I tried fixing the unreproducible issues for three packages, and sent the patches to the guix-patches (mentioned in the guix manual) mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches

Re: What is Guix garbage collector root aka gc root

2017-08-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 04:19:54PM +0300, Oleg Pykhalov wrote: > I'm trying to understand what is “garbage collector root” aka “gc root”. Garbage-collector roots (GC roots) are items in /gnu/store that are registered to protect them from the garbage collector: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ma

What is Guix garbage collector root aka gc root

2017-08-13 Thread Oleg Pykhalov
Hello Guix, I'm trying to understand what is “garbage collector root” aka “gc root”. 1. Is “$HOME/.guix-profile” a “gc root”? 2. I need to build a package, but don't install it. Just preserve it for offloading. Is “guix build --root=$HOME/.guix-profile PACKAGE” (run as non root user) what I wa