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Wouldn't this all be a bit easier if the hashes in guix/nix were relative to some global destination store location, rather than /nix or /guix?

• rekado 10y ago
  What would that look like?
  • codemac 10y ago
    I need to look at how pack is implemented, maybe I'm missing something. I already used this to install guile 2.2 on a debian machine, so I'm excited for this development. But to clarify my point - instead of all the content hashes being based on "/guix/store", they'd be based on "guix/store", which would be relative to a configured "store root" to the daemon (or defaulting to /). Then packages generated would also have relative links, thus "installing a package from guix" would just be a matter of downloading the dependency graph, and tucking away wherever you please.
    • davexunit 10y ago
      Without using absolute file names you'd have lookup problems everywhere.
      • codemac 10y ago
        Yeah, ran into this when thinking more about this on the bus. Sorry for the distraction.
• civodul 10y ago
  Thanks to user namespaces, it's easy to map, say, /home/myself/gnu to /gnu, as shown in the article (with "unshare"). For cases where user namespaces are unavailable, Pjotr Prins wrote a neat hack that allows users to "relocate" binaries to a different file system location by rewriting file names in the binaries: https://github.com/pjotrp/gnu-install-bin https://github.com/pjotrp/gnu-install-bin . Scary to some, but definitely does the job. :-)