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GNU Guix: How to run foreign binaries (zie87.github.io)

submitted 3 weeks ago by csantosb@lemmy.ml to c/guix@lemmy.ml

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[–] khleedril@cyberplace.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@tetris11 Typically but not always. Oftentimes guix runs on top of a foreign distribution, and then a chroot jail might be unhelpful.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

how so? a chroot jail is a chroot jail. As long as you've got all your toys where they should be, what difference does it make to the distro?

[–] khleedril@cyberplace.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@tetris11 Because guix as a general rule knows nothing about the underlying operating system, so you can't expect it to set things up as you describe.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

oh, true. In my head chroot is just proc/sys/dev binding, but you're right that there are OS specific paths there too