Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <h...@yagnesh.org> skribis: > I have followed installation procedure and created users for > guix-builder. Started guix-daemon. > > While trying to install hello package I had few problems, but managed to > go further, thanks to the error message emitting from guix-deamon.
Great. > At first I had to create /gnu/store folder > then, changing permissions/group for /gnu/store folder. (This was suggested > by > error message itself. Nice ) > then, there had to create /dev/kvm folder. > > So the question is why did I have to these manually? is it some thing to do > with how I installed the guix.? No, everything works as expected. The /dev/kvm thing is an annoyance that was introduced just a couple of days ago, and we’re working on fixing that, as you may have seen. > Finally I installed hello package using `guix package -i hello'. Took around > more than two hours. is it legit? Yes. Apparently you’ve been building from source. Guix can build from source, or download pre-built binaries, known as “substitutes” (see <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Features>.) On x86_64-linux and i686-linux, it’s possible to get pre-built binaries from hydra.gnu.org, with the caveat that currently these binaries cannot be authenticated. > Further, If try another package say `guix package -i autoconf'. It is trying > to installing whole lot of dependencies AGAIN. am I doing some thing wrong > here. Nothing wrong. It just happens to be building from source. > Finally, I run above commands as root, now if switch back and try to install > as normal user, it seems guix doesn't reuse dependencies installed by root > user. is it intended.? Everything that’s built is kept in /gnu/store, unless you run ‘guix gc’. See <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/#documentation>. :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
