Hi. On 06/23/2015 06:37 PM, Adrien Devresse wrote: >> > Would this work as a non-root user ? >> > No, you need to be root to do chroot builds. >> > > This is unfortunately a problem: Nix is advertised to work in non-root > environment and is used as this. > > You have common situations where root access is just not possible.
Have you tried a proot environment? IIRC it was reported as a success by some scientific HPC people. You shouldn't even need to rebuild anything, and the runtime impact is supposed to be low. https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_install_nix_in_home_(on_another_distribution)#PRoot_Installation BTW, I thought the most advertised case is that a root installs nix and then any regular user can install packages... (http://nixos.org/nix/ "Multi-user, multi-version") Vladimir
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