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Guix as remote dev machine
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t |
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Guix as remote dev machine |
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Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:09:02 +0000 |
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Hi Guix.
I'm trying to come up with a reasonable way to use my Guix machine sitting in
the attic as my remote development server. This presents several challenges.
Locally I would typically follow these steps:
1. Create a project dir with guix.scm describing (possibly empty) package
2. `guix shell` or start a container, with entire system if I need to e.g. run
a db
3. start emacs from that shell or container forwarding to my main DISPLAY
When attempting to do something similar remotely, you very quickly run into
issues. X forwarding to a Linux machine kinda works, but sadly on OSX, which I
have to use as a client, XQuartz X server implementation can't deal with hi DPI
and the end result is miserable. Then there're potential rendering issues when
your remote server doesn't even have a graphics card. We're sadly left with ssh
+ terminal Emacs. However, just ssh and then follow the above steps won't be
enough. When your ssh session goes down, it'll take everything with it.
I hear you say `tmux`. I thought so too, but fresh `guix package -i tmux` gives
me `Incorrect locale LC_all, LC_CTYPE or LANG` when I try to run it. Weird,
seeing how this is attempted on Guix SD. No matter. Lets just go with `screen`,
which seems to work. Then follow the above steps.
This sort of works and how I would imagine most people attempting this would
end up with. It leaves me itchy though. I mean, do I even need that `screen`
there when `emacs --daemon=name` exist? Latter will happily detach itself from
your tty and persist across ssh sessions. Problem of course is the 2nd step
above, which assumes we spawn a shell (possibly run a container, maybe even the
entire system). I wonder if there's a way to avoid the intermediate `screen` or
`tmux` completely. Way I understand it, `guix shell`, `guix shell -c` and `guix
system --container` are Unix processes. Could they be detached or put under
some group or smth? I mean, screen works ok, but I wonder.
Thanks
- Guix as remote dev machine,
t <=