Hi Thomas, "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbac...@gmx.net> skribis:
> I have now a qemu-system-i386 VM with Debian GNU/Linux from > debian-9.6.0-i386-netinst.iso without desktop environment and reachable > via SSH. Very minimal. (I only did "apt-get install build-essential" to > feel not lonely without C compiler and friends.) If you’re testing in a VM you might just as well download the GuixSD VM image from <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/>. It should be simpler than installing Debian and then installing Guix on top of Debian. > Then i followed the instructions of > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html > with > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.16.0.i686-linux.tar.xz > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.16.0.i686-linux.tar.xz.sig > up to step 7 ("guix archive --authorize ..."). > > Then i made the mistake to do the proposed > > guix package -i hello > > It downloads and builds and blows away the free space on the virtual 8 GB > disk ... /gnu is growing steadily and /tmp breathes between 50 MB and 2 GB. > I abort this after 100 minutes before the virtual disk gets too full and > my CPU melts. Did you actually run “guix archive --authorize < …/ci.guix.info.pub”? https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Substitute-Server-Authorization.html If you didn’t, then you are not getting pre-built binaries and thus you end up building the world. HTH, Ludo’.
