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bug#52517: inconstency with offloading
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#52517: inconstency with offloading |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:52:47 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> The manual provides [1] the example:
>
> (build-machine
> (name "armeight.example.org")
> (systems (list "aarch64-linux"))
> (host-key "ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza…")
> (user "alice")
> (private-key
> (string-append (getenv "HOME")
> "/.ssh/identity-for-guix")))
>
>
> but what is not clear is 'getenv' from who. Concretly, adding 'pk' it
> reads:
>
> $ guix offload test
>
> ;;; ("/home/simon")
> guix offload: testing 2 build machines defined in '/etc/guix/machines.scm'...
>
>
> however, when really building with offload:
>
> $ guix build -L /tmp/mine r-cipr
> The following derivation will be built:
> /gnu/store/mzixy5hhx79xx33k03acaasml87c0knc-r-cipr-0.1.0-1.4b01bb8.drv
>
> ;;; ("/root")
This is because guix-daemon spawns ‘guix offload’ as root.
But yeah, I agree that the example contributes to the confusion.
How about changing the manual as shown below?
Ludo’.
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 43549da388..9c1f30e83f 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -1250,9 +1250,10 @@ The @file{/etc/guix/machines.scm} file typically looks
like this:
(systems (list "aarch64-linux"))
(host-key "ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza@dots{}")
(user "alice")
- (private-key
- (string-append (getenv "HOME")
- "/.ssh/identity-for-guix"))))
+
+ ;; Remember 'guix offload' is spawned by
+ ;; 'guix-daemon' as root.
+ (private-key "/root/.ssh/identity-for-guix")))
@end lisp
@noindent
- bug#52517: inconstency with offloading,
Ludovic Courtès <=