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-rw-r--r--issues/per-service-profile-for-shepherd-services.gmi15
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diff --git a/issues/genecup-running-as-root.gmi b/issues/genecup-running-as-root.gmi
index c48924f..72d5704 100644
--- a/issues/genecup-running-as-root.gmi
+++ b/issues/genecup-running-as-root.gmi
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
# genecup is currently running as root on penguin2.
+Is this still true for tux02? Fixed: genecup is now running as a container so we can close this.
+
+## Info
+
Currently when run using shepherd it fails like this:
guix system: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by
@@ -32,7 +36,7 @@ A number of changes to different types of shepherd services (exec-command, make-
* assigned: Efraim
* type: failure
* keywords: genecup, penguin2
-* status: unclear
+* status: closed
* priority: high
## Notes
diff --git a/issues/per-service-profile-for-shepherd-services.gmi b/issues/per-service-profile-for-shepherd-services.gmi
index 654a723..43c9118 100644
--- a/issues/per-service-profile-for-shepherd-services.gmi
+++ b/issues/per-service-profile-for-shepherd-services.gmi
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
# Each shepherd service needs its own guix profile.
-Currently there are a bunch of shepherd services (on Penguin2, as user shepherd) who are using the global shepherd guix profile and loading guix-bioinformatics at service start time to start their services. This is bad because:
+UPDATE: genecup is now running as a container on tux02. This is a model for getting rid of guix profiles. Note that we
+do need to fixate guix-bioinformatics and guix-past channels *per* service. Otherwise updates are impossible.
+
+In time we may move to hosting these services in a guix system container (a VM).
+
+Currently there are a bunch of shepherd services (on tux02, as user shepherd) who are using the global shepherd guix profile and loading guix-bioinformatics at service start time to start their services. This is bad because:
* we aren't using per-service guix-bioinformatics worktrees, so the branch changes between service refreshes
* service start times are high because we have to rebuild the service (due to above)
* services which are restarted are in an "untested" state until they work
+
## Services which need to be migrated:
* covid19-pubseq (uses shared (broken!) guix profile, uses shared config directory)(currently running by hand by Pjotr)
@@ -22,6 +28,9 @@ Currently there are a bunch of shepherd services (on Penguin2, as user shepherd)
## Services which already have their own profile:
+Note that the profiles essentially just contain the guix binary, acting like a time machine. It is
+used to fire up a guix shell/environment:
+
* bnw
* cronjob-gitea
* cronjob-pubmed (genecup)
@@ -34,8 +43,8 @@ Currently there are a bunch of shepherd services (on Penguin2, as user shepherd)
## Tags
-* assigned: efraim
+* assigned: efraim, pjotrp
* type: bug
-* status: unclear
+* status: in progress
* priority: high
* keywords: shepherd, system administration