Re: Introducing Guix to HPC at my institution

[Sébastien Lerique]

Hi Ludo,

On 11 Apr 2021 at 05:43, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> > If, instead of resarting from scratch, I just run again `guix 
> > install
> > hello --no-offload`, I then get:
> >
> >  guix install: error: got unexpected path
> >  `/gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/bash:
> >  warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)' 
> >  from
> > substituter
>
> I (re-)fixed this particular problem here:
>
>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/46362
>
> So if you create a pack containing the ‘guix’ package from 
> current
> master, this problem should no longer be there.

Success! With substitutes:

 $ guix install hello --no-offload
 [... installs ...]
 $ GUIX_PROFILE="/home/s/sebastien-lerique/.guix-profile"
 $ . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
 $ hello
 Hello, world!

Then my next steps are to try out a few more things, see if some 
builds work (based on existing substitutes, not from scratch), 
gather some interest here now that I can demo, and then come back 
to explore builtin support for a non-root shared build daemon.

Thank you!!
Sébastien