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@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ A continuously deployed instance of genenetwork3 is available at redeployed on every commit provided that the [continuous integration tests](https://ci.genenetwork.org/jobs/genenetwork3) pass. - - ## Installation #### GNU Guix packages @@ -35,6 +33,8 @@ There are at least three ways to start GeneNetwork3 with GNU Guix: 2. Create a container with `guix shell -C` 3. Use a profile and shell settings with `source ~/opt/genenetwork3/etc/profile` +At this point we use all three for different purposes. + #### Create an environment: Simply load up the environment (for development purposes): @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Simply load up the environment (for development purposes): guix shell -Df guix.scm ``` -Also, make sure you have the [guix-bioinformatics](https://git.genenetwork.org/guix-bioinformatics/guix-bioinformatics) channel set up. +Also, make sure you have the guix-bioinformatics channel set up correctly and this should work ```bash guix shell --expose=$HOME/genotype_files/ -Df guix.scm @@ -51,7 +51,15 @@ python3 import redis ``` -#### Run a Guix container +Check if guix and guix-bioinformatics channel are up-to-date with + +``` +guix describe +``` + +#### Run a Guix container with network + +Containers provide full isolation from the underlying distribution. Very useful for figuring out any dependency issues: ``` guix shell -C --network --expose=$HOME/genotype_files/ -Df guix.scm @@ -59,6 +67,8 @@ guix shell -C --network --expose=$HOME/genotype_files/ -Df guix.scm #### Using a Guix profile (or rolling back) +A guix profile is different from a Guix shell - it has less isolation from the underlying distribution. + Create a new profile with ``` |