GUIX-DAEMON(1)

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version 1.5.0 · 4 versions
, in alpine 3.24

💅 GUIX-DAEMON(1) — the girlies' guide 💅

okay so first things first: this is a page from the User Commands manual, and it's all about guix-daemon, version 1.5.0. yes, that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

guix-daemon — fr fr the manual page for guix-daemon 1.5.0, no cap 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

guix-daemon [OPTION...]

like, you just run it with options. that's the whole thing bestie 💖

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

guix-daemon — the icon, the moment: it performs derivation builds and store accesses. main character energy, honestly 👑

Here's every single flag, and yes I'm giving you all of them because you deserve the full picture:

  • --build-users-group=GROUP — performs builds as a user that belongs to GROUP 🧚
  • --cache-failures — caches build failures. like, remembers them. holding grudges but productively 💀
  • -c, --cores=N — uses N CPU cores to build each derivation; 0 means "use as many as are available" (aka let it cook 🔥)
  • --chroot-directory=DIR — adds DIR to the build chroot 🎀
  • --debug — produces debugging output. the girl is telling you everything 🌈
  • --disable-chroot — disables chroot builds 🚫
  • --disable-deduplication — disables automatic file "deduplication" in the store (yes, "deduplication" in quotes, that's how the original says it, iykyk)
  • --discover[=yes/no] — uses substitute servers discovered on the local network ✨
  • --gc-keep-derivations[=yes/no] — tells whether the GC must keep derivations corresponding to live outputs 🦋
  • --gc-keep-outputs[=yes/no] — tells whether the GC must keep outputs of live derivations 🦋
  • --impersonate-linux-2.6 — impersonates Linux 2.6. cosplay, but for kernels 💅
  • --isolate-host-loopback — does not allow fixed-output chroot builds to access the host loopback 🔒
  • --listen=SOCKET — listens for connections on SOCKET 👂
  • --log-compression=TYPE — uses the specified compression type for build logs 🗜️
  • --lose-logs — does not keep build logs. they're gone, bestie, let them go 😭
  • --max-silent-time=SECONDS — marks builds as failed after SECONDS of silence 🤫
  • -M, --max-jobs=N — allows at most N build jobs 🍓
  • --no-offload — does not attempt to offload builds
  • --no-substitutes — does not use substitutes
  • --rounds=N — builds each derivation N times in a row (again and again and again ⭐)
  • --substitute-urls=URLS — uses URLS as the default list of substitute providers 🌐
  • --system=SYSTEM — assumes SYSTEM as the current system type 🖥️
  • --timeout=SECONDS — marks builds as failed after SECONDS of activity ⏰
  • -?, --help — gives this help list 🫶
  • --usage — gives a short usage message 📝
  • -V, --version — prints program version 🏷️
little technical note that is very much still true: mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. so like, don't get cute with it 💖

And the actual what is this thing paragraph: this program is a daemon meant to run in the background. It serves requests sent over a Unix-domain socket. It accesses the store, and builds derivations on behalf of its clients. she's the backbone of the whole operation, lowkey 💅

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Report bugs to https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/. please do, they wanna know, fr fr 🫶

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

The full documentation for guix-daemon is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and guix-daemon programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info guix

should give you access to the complete manual. go read it, it's giving encyclopedic queen 👑

and that's the page!! brought to you by GNU, dated January 1970 (yes, really, that's the date on it, iconic timestamp honestly 🕰️), filed under GUIX-DAEMON(1). mwah, go build something 💋💖✨

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