Re: Running guix-daemon as an unprivileged user (Was: [PATCH] syscalls: setns: Skip binding if there is no such C function.)

[Eric Bavier]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:45:28 +0200
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > [Reposting with correct sender. Sorry, David.]
> >
> > Great! I ran into this when trying to compile and run guix on a
> > machine at work, where I'm not root.
> >
> > I was planning to run guix as a stow of steroids. But I'm still
> > wondering whether what I'm attempting is even intended to be
> > possible? Of course, I would lose the benefits of user separation,
> > chroot, hydra (because I can't write to /gnu) etc, but is guix even
> > made to be able to downgrade to this situation?
> 
> Answering myself: It is there in the Fine Manual. So it's intended to
> work. I will try this and see how far I come.
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Build-Environment-Setup
> 
> "If you are installing Guix as an unprivileged user, it is still
> possible to run guix-daemon provided you pass --disable-chroot."
> 

I have experimented with this a bit lately.  It works to some extent,
but I have had to apply a few patches to some package recipes.  Some
packages have failing tests (where presumably they would pass or be
skipped in the chroot), which I have disabled for the time being just
to move along.

I can post a few of the patches to the ML later.

`~Eric