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 speci
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:
>> >
>> > https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/GUIX-NO-ROOT.org
>
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
>
> I've never tried to measur
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? It's not as if they're goi
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 thought about this (we
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 m
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 curr
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 thought about this (we have rewriting machinery in (guix build
grafts) that we could adjust and use), but
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 ma