[bug#27426] [PATCH 0/2] 'guix-daemon --listen' can specify multiple interfaces

[Roel Janssen]

Roel Janssen writes:

> Hi Ludo’,
>
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Hello Guix!
>>
>> Commit 3dff90ce34448551bc82a6a7262837c0561a4691 added support for
>> guix:// URIs on the client side.  This commit adds guix-daemon support
>> to specify TCP sockets to listen to, like this:
>>
>>   # Listen on the loopback interface only, port 1234.
>>   guix-daemon --listen=localhost:1234
>>
>>   # Listen on the Unix-domain socket and on the public interface,
>>   # port 44146.
>>   guix-daemon --listen=/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket \
>>               --listen=0.0.0.0
>>
>> The primary use case is clusters running a single ‘guix-daemon’ instance
>> that can be accessed from other nodes on the local network.
>>
>> Feedback welcome!
>
> Thanks a lot for these patches!  Today I tried to run the guix-daemon
> with it on our cluster.  It works fine, except for the following (which
> might be unrelated):
>
> address@hidden ~]$ /gnu/repositories/guix/guix-daemon 
> --listen=/gnu/daemon-socket/socket --listen=<ip-address>:<port> ...
>
> address@hidden ~]$ guixr package -i samtools
> The following package will be installed:
>    samtools    1.3.1    
> /gnu/store/syl74az7a5mw5f8r5jfldiddlyc3ry28-samtools-1.3.1
>
> substitute: error: executing `/usr/local/libexec/guix/substitute': No such 
> file or directory
> guix package: error: build failed: substituter `substitute' died unexpectedly
>

Ooh, nevermind..  This has to do with the 'pre-inst-env' script.

>
> When passing --no-substitutes, the command works, which means the
> guix-daemon with these patches applied does what we expect.
>
> Note that, I could've used 'guix' instead of 'guixr', but all 'guixr'
> essentially does is set the GUIX_DAEMON_SOCKET and GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH
> variables.
>
> I wonder where this /usr/local/libexec comes from, and how/where I can
> configure it so that it works the same as before.
>
> Thanks again for these patches.
>
> Kind regards,
> Roel Janssen