Hi Étienne,
I am very late to the party. :-)
Well, there is a discussion about “guix shell”, “profile” and “guix
time-machine”. Since these concepts can appear as first as alien, let
me try a quick summary of my understanding.
+ “guix shell“ creates a temporary profile;
+ “guix time-machine”
Hi Etienne,
> The issue with profiles you are mentioning is interesting; I haven't quite
> thought it through yet. I think I would personally want users to be able to
> create profiles (for reproducibility reasons) but I guess it would work the
> same way with guix shells built from manifests, ma
Hi Etienne,
> I think we've arrived at the limit of how I understand the daemon to work,
> and GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET. I think I understand that you
> are using a single node (hpc of sort I imagine), where users create sessions,
> and within which you provide the guix command, having
> set up GUIX
Oops, my bad, I seemed to have hit Reply, instead of Reply-all.
Here is the follow up to that email:
*Etienne B. Roesch >
3:42 PM (12 minutes ago) to Pierre-Antoine*
Merci Pierre-Antoine ! :)
It sounds like you also made the conscious choice of using guix shells,
instead of profiles. Why is tha
Thanks a ton!
I think we've arrived at the limit of how I understand the daemon to work,
and GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET. I think I understand that you are using a single
node (hpc of sort I imagine), where users create sessions, and within which
you provide the guix command, having set up GUIX_DAEMON_SOCK
"Etienne B. Roesch" writes:
> Hiccups: we provide home dirs as nfs drives through the network. Using guix,
> we are thinking of creating one nfs drive, shared by all
> users, to contain /var/guix and /gnu/store, symlinked from /.
> As I understand, that should work, until a user decides to run
Hi Etienne,
FWIW at the MDC we’ve been doing the same: on all nodes mount /gnu read-only,
mount
/var/guix read-write; provide a “guix” executable that sets
GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET and disables/discourages “guix gc”.
> Thanks! That's really helpful! How robust is your system to bandwidth
> fluctuati
Hi!
A quick follow up on that, as I have had some discussions with a few of
you, and also my IT department.
*Context*: at the University of Reading, we have that facility that allows
the deployment of vms on-demand to the campus. I work primarily on
reproducibility in science, and managed to conv
On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 06:08:30PM +, Etienne B. Roesch wrote:
> Hahaha! Yes, that's what I was getting at!
>
> I suppose one could run gc periodically, in a monthly cron. No?
>
> Etienne
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 1:03 PM Felix Lechner
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Efraim,
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 23 202
On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 09:41:56AM +, Etienne B. Roesch wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 6:32 AM Efraim Flashner
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 05:32:07PM +, Etienne B. Roesch wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have been successful in convincing our IT dept to provide guix as
> > >
Hahaha! Yes, that's what I was getting at!
I suppose one could run gc periodically, in a monthly cron. No?
Etienne
On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 1:03 PM Felix Lechner
wrote:
> Hi Efraim,
>
> On Thu, Nov 23 2023, Efraim Flashner wrote:
>
> > One thing we do on the small cluster at UTenn is /gnu and /
Hi Efraim,
On Thu, Nov 23 2023, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> One thing we do on the small cluster at UTenn is /gnu and /var/guix (in
> addition to the home directories) are exported across NFS
That's fascinating! Do you ever run 'guix gc', or do you just buy new
disks when space runs low?
Kind rega
Thanks! That's really helpful! How robust is your system to bandwidth
fluctuations and network hiccups?
How big is your store, /gnu, /var/guix?
How many users do you have?
Etienne
On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 6:32 AM Efraim Flashner
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 05:32:07PM +, Etienne B. Roes
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 05:32:07PM +, Etienne B. Roesch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been successful in convincing our IT dept to provide guix as
> standard on our vms and research clusters. We use this sophisticated
> platform that allows users to spawn a vm at will, and also use this shared
> lda
Hi,
I have been successful in convincing our IT dept to provide guix as
standard on our vms and research clusters. We use this sophisticated
platform that allows users to spawn a vm at will, and also use this shared
ldap user database to allow for people to log on from computers/terminals
spread o
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