Re: Compiling guix 0.3 on a fedora 8 planetlab node

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Matthias Wachs <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>>> How did it complain exactly?  Is it running as ‘root’, as per
>>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Setting-Up-the-Daemon>?
>>> 
>>> The ability to run build processes in a chroot and under separate UIDs
>>> is essential to achieve reproducibility.
>>
>> The basic issue is: 
>> I cannot add a builder group since on these machines I don't have the
>> "groupadd" command ... limitations of the image/testbed
>
> You may have ‘addgroup’ instead, no?

Failing that, you could manually edit /etc/{passwd,group,shadow}.

     Mark