Hello, YOANN P <yoann_mac_don...@hotmail.com> skribis:
> Is there any plan to include "proot-static" with Guix Binary releases ? Good question! > My request is motivated by the fact i'm looking for a way to use/install Guix > only with the bin release on a non-privileged environnement (HPC, non root > user) without the need to use guix pack on another computer to create a > "pack" only for this package for every architecture i would like to install > Guix on. > > This way, if namespaces are not available, we could use Guix with Proot > without any more efforts. Indeed. (I assume you read <https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2017/10/using-guix-without-being-root/>, which is about running software from a pack, rather than running Guix itself. Pjotr has a very good writeup on this topic, which includes running Guix itself under PRoot: <https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/GUIX-NO-ROOT.org>.) Including proot-static makes a lot of sense and easily done (it adds 3 MiB to the result.) We’d need to document it properly though, probably with a new section under “Setting Up the Daemon”. We could mention user namespaces as another option for non-root users. Thoughts? Ricardo? Ludo’.
