Re: Running guix-daemon as an unprivileged user

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 2015-08-17 15:46, Claes Wallin wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Eric Bavier
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Any patches related to bootstrapping gcc? I'm getting lib/lib64
>> confusion.
>
> Yes, that's been one issue.

I’m afraid there are many such issues, with build systems sometimes
deciding what to do based on existence of files such as /lib64 or the
output of /usr/bin/gcc.  :-/

I really look forward to user name space support in the daemon.

Thanks,
Ludo’.