Guix
Guix package manager is available in Grid'5000 to provide an alternative way of installing software on nodes.
This page describe the use of Guix on Grid'5000. For additional information about Guix, see:
- Guix website
- Guix manual, package management section
- Guix HPC blog, with information about Guix usage in a HPC and reproducible context
How to use Guix on Grid'5000
guix is available on the standard environment directly through the guix command.
For example:
guix install hello
Each Grid'5000 site hosts a Guix server communicating with each other. So if you install a package on Nancy and then decide to install the same package in Grenoble the guix server from Grenoble will fetch it from Nancy.
Note: To work properly, a `.guix` directory is created in your home directory. If you remove it, guix will stop working since your profile is stored there.
Compilation
When you try to install or compile a package the following thing happened:
- guix first try to fetch the compiled package from ci.guix.gnu.org
- if not found it will try to find it on all the guix server of grid5000 (there is one for each site)
- if it still not found it will be build on a dedicated machine on grid5000 which is not accessible to the users
Supported architecture
For now, Guix is only available on nodes with x86_64 architecture.