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bug#34486: [PATCH 0/1] Add '--inherit' to 'guix environment'
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#34486: [PATCH 0/1] Add '--inherit' to 'guix environment' |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Feb 2019 01:05:17 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> This new option allows to specify additional variables to be inherited
>> in a “pure” (semi-pure?) environment.
>>
>> The main motivation was the use of the SLURM batch scheduler, which
>> defines environment variables that you need to preserve so that things
>> like ‘mpirun’ work correctly.
>
> Looks good to me. The same is needed for Grid Engine. Previously I
> would use “env” with an installed profile for the same effect:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> profile=/path/to/.guix-profile
> exec /bin/env - PATH=/opt/uge/bin/lx-amd64 \
> SGE_CELL=default \
> SGE_ARCH=lx-amd64 …
> GUIX_LOCPATH=… \
> /bin/bash --init-file "$profile/etc/profile"
Oh so I guess this is an improvement. :-)
Pushed as e6e599fa0106f57b9de15f90dcab3795ff1575b6.
> I guess the only thing that’s missing now is to activate an installed
> environment.
Something beyond --search-paths and etc/profile, right? I’m not sure
what it would look like.
Thanks for your feedback David & Ricardo!
Ludo’.