Re: Generating wrappers for execution in non-root non-Guix contexts

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> The hack below allows ‘guix pack’ to produce wrappers that allow,
> through user namespaces, programs to automatically relocate themselves
> when you run them unprivileged on a machine that lacks Guix.  In the
> example below, I run ‘sed’ from a pack on a machine that lacks Guix:
>
> address@hidden:~/tmp$ tar xf ../pack.tgz
> address@hidden:~/tmp$ echo hello > foo
> address@hidden:~/tmp$ 
> gnu/store/ffdzkyi23n8xh3n6vfqpa1lzg3xx9jpj-sed-4.4/bin/sed -i foo 
> -es/hello/bye/g
> address@hidden:~/tmp$ cat foo
> bye
> address@hidden:~/tmp$ ls /gnu/store
> ls: cannot access '/gnu/store': No such file or directory

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