Non-privileged daemons and offloading

2016-06-19 Thread Ben Woodcroft
Hi there, I've recently gotten access to a supercomputer where I don't have sudo, and I'm trying to hatch a plan to run guix packaged programs. Unfortunately, I don't have anything substantial like a container-based build environment to add here, only a potential workaround idea. I could run

Re: inputs vs. native-inputs vs. propagated-inputs

2016-06-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Lukas Gradl skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Leo Famulari skribis: >> >>> I _think_ that `gc --references` works by querying the database for a >>> list of references in the store item you give it as an argument. I think >>> that the information in the database is created a

guix offloading fails to register GC root

2016-06-19 Thread Ethan J
Hi, I was trying to use the guix offloading capability to offloading building of packages from my laptop to a more power server. After fighting with lsh to get ssh working [1], I ran into this error while running guix build -i hello http://paste.lisp.org/display/318673 I have a feeling it might be