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Building Guix from within a container

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Message #20 received at 26366 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org>
Cc: 26366 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26366: [PATCH] doc: Specify that Guix should be built from
 within a container.
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 14:40:13 +0200

Clément Lassieur <clement <at> lassieur.org> skribis:

> * doc/contributing.texi: add '--container' and '--network' options to the
> 'guix environment guix' command.

[...]

> +course, by using Guix!  The following command starts a new shell within
> +an isolated container where all the dependencies and appropriate
> +environment variables are set up to hack on Guix:
>  
>  @example
> -guix environment guix
> +guix environment --container --network guix
>  @end example

What’s the rationale?  Was this to address the warnings in your first
message?

It’s possible and a good way to silence the warnings you were seeing,
but it should work fine without it too.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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