Re: Hacks to install Guix packages without root

2017-11-06 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 03:03:30PM +, Dave Love wrote: > > Best to try for the specific use case. For bioinformatics it won't > > work. > > This may be a bit off-topic, but perhaps it helps in packaging: I don't > know whether that refers to using PRoot or fakechroot, but anyway, > what

Re: Hacks to install Guix packages without root

2017-11-06 Thread Dave Love
Pjotr Prins writes: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 02:19:55PM +, Dave Love wrote: >> Pjotr Prins writes: >> >> > PRoot is too slow for most HPC purposes but can be used to build >> > non-proot binaries, as I do here: >> > >> >

Re: Hacks to install Guix packages without root

2017-11-03 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 02:19:55PM +, Dave Love wrote: > Pjotr Prins writes: > > > PRoot is too slow for most HPC purposes but can be used to build > > non-proot binaries, as I do here: > > > > https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/GUIX-NO-ROOT.org >

Re: Hacks to install Guix packages without root

2017-10-31 Thread Dave Love
Pjotr Prins writes: > PRoot is too slow for most HPC purposes but can be used to build > non-proot binaries, as I do here: > > https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/GUIX-NO-ROOT.org I've never tried to measure it, but how does it affect most HPC purposes?

Re: Hacks to install Guix packages without root

2017-10-27 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 05:48:20PM -0700, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi! > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > > > How about an extension of “guix pack” that will rewrite the /gnu/store > > references to a user-provided directory before bundling things up in a > > tarball? > > I’ve

Re: Hacks to install Guix packages without root

2017-10-27 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:46:52PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi, > > this blog post contains many great examples of how to deploy Guix > applications without root access: > > > http://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2017/10/using-guix-without-being-root/ > > I think that all of these

Re: Hacks to install Guix packages without root

2017-10-27 Thread Konrad Hinsen
On 26/10/2017 23:46, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: How about an extension of “guix pack” that will rewrite the /gnu/store references to a user-provided directory before bundling things up in a tarball? I’d *really* like to be able to just use the tarball bundle “guix pack” produces by default, but

Hacks to install Guix packages without root

2017-10-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, this blog post contains many great examples of how to deploy Guix applications without root access: http://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2017/10/using-guix-without-being-root/ I think that all of these methods should be wrapped up by Guix itself, so that none of this has to be done