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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2019-09-04 21:18:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2019-09-04 23:41:07 +0200 |
| commit | f475c6e53e5b6912cc45663d50f1d03dadfb60b8 (patch) | |
| tree | 993f86bc3e42e71bce1f5a736497388634afe354 /README | |
| parent | c26f562e5e22b07e61475cab7324e84f6fe70e57 (diff) | |
doc: Update 'README'.
* README: Update intro a bit.
(Installing Guix as non-root): Remove as it's largely outdated.
(Contact): Update.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 36 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 28 deletions
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ It provides [[https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/][Guile]] Scheme APIs, includin domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to describe how packages are to be built and composed. -A user-land free software distribution for GNU/Linux comes as part of -Guix. +GNU Guix can be used on top of an already-installed GNU/Linux distribution, or +it can be used standalone (we call that “Guix System”). Guix is based on the [[https://nixos.org/nix/][Nix]] package manager. @@ -75,37 +75,17 @@ the promise of a build; it is stored as a text file under `derivation' primitive, as well as higher-level wrappers such as `build-expression->derivation'. -Guix does remote procedure calls (RPCs) to the Guix or Nix daemon (the -=guix-daemon= or =nix-daemon= command), which in turn performs builds -and accesses to the Nix store on its behalf. The RPCs are implemented -in the (guix store) module. - -* Installing Guix as non-root - -The Guix daemon allows software builds to be performed under alternate -user accounts, which are normally created specifically for this -purpose. For instance, you may have a pool of accounts in the -=guixbuild= group, and then you can instruct =guix-daemon= to use them -like this: - - $ guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild - -However, unless it is run as root, =guix-daemon= cannot switch users. -In that case, it falls back to using a setuid-root helper program call -=nix-setuid-helper=. That program is not setuid-root by default when -you install it; instead you should run a command along these lines -(assuming Guix is installed under /usr/local): - - # chown root.root /usr/local/libexec/nix-setuid-helper - # chmod 4755 /usr/local/libexec/nix-setuid-helper +Guix does remote procedure calls (RPCs) to the build daemon (the =guix-daemon= +command), which in turn performs builds and accesses to the store on its +behalf. The RPCs are implemented in the (guix store) module. * Contact GNU Guix is hosted at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/guix/. -Please email <bug-guix@gnu.org> for bug reports or questions regarding -Guix and its distribution; email <gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org> for -general issues regarding the GNU system. +Please email <help-guix@gnu.org> for questions and <bug-guix@gnu.org> for bug +reports; email <gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org> for general issues regarding the +GNU system. Join #guix on irc.freenode.net. |