Thorsten Wilms transcribed 1.2K bytes: > On 13.06.2018 10:13, Nils Gillmann wrote: > > > > Is this ability to chroot into GuixSD worth mentioning in the manual? > > > IMHO it is not worth to be mentioned in the manual, as it is the same as > > > for all Linux systems. > > Not really, since you can not*fully* chroot a GuixSD. Some functions > > will not work, like interacting with the daemon or what it was. Last > > time I tried this was at least 1.5 years ago. > > You can interact with the daemon: > > cd /path/to/guix/root > sudo mount --bind /dev dev > sudo mount --bind /proc proc > sudo mount --bind /sys sys > sudo unshare -m sudo chroot . /run/current-system/profile/bin/bash > source /etc/profile > > guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild & > > If you then `su` to a plain user, do `source /etc/profile` again. > > I think all of `guix pull`. `reconfigure` and `package` search, install and > update worked here with that approach. `guix download` failed due to nss > certificates, until I added: > export SSL_CERT_DIR="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs" > export > SSL_CERT_FILE="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" > export GIT_SSL_CAINFO="$SSL_CERT_FILE"
Huh. Okay, cool. Thanks for documeting this at least on the mailing list :)
