Creating user profiles

[Andreas Enge]

Following the commit:

commit b9e5c0a949fa627da55ea53fd71dfa96ad8a2b4b

guix-package: Create ~/.guix-profile when it doesn't exist.

 

I finally dropped giving the explicit profile parameter to guix-package. This results in the following error when installing a package:

 

Backtrace:

In ice-9/boot-9.scm:

149: 12 [catch #t #<catch-closure 12f39c0> ...]

157: 11 [#<procedure 128f0f0 ()>]

In unknown file:

?: 10 [catch-closure]

In ice-9/boot-9.scm:

63: 9 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]

In ice-9/eval.scm:

407: 8 [eval # #]

In unknown file:

?: 7 [call-with-input-string "(apply (module-ref (resolve-interface '(guix-package)) 'guix-package) (cdr (command-line)))" ...]

In ice-9/command-line.scm:

174: 6 [#<procedure 120e2a0 at ice-9/command-line.scm:169:3 (port)> #<input: string 10b60d0>]

In unknown file:

?: 5 [eval (apply (module-ref # #) (cdr #)) #<directory (guile-user) 12f5d80>]

In ice-9/boot-9.scm:

149: 4 [catch srfi-34 #<procedure 1290c40 at guix/ui.scm:71:2 ()> ...]

157: 3 [#<procedure 1753870 ()>]

In /usr/local/bin/guix-package:

475: 2 [#<procedure 13b8c60 at /usr/local/bin/guix-package:468:4 ()>]

409: 1 [process-actions (# #)]

In unknown file:

?: 0 [symlink "/nix/store/g4bnzikcjgdcgmcj7by815wb9ykz470l-user-environment" ...]

 

In fact, a symbolic link $HOME/.guix-profile is created to the non-existing file /usr/local/guix-git/var/nix/profiles/per-user/privat/guix-profile (where /usr/local/guix-git/ is my installation prefix).

 

The user environment /nix/store/g4bnzikcjgdcgmcj7by815wb9ykz470l-user-environment exists in the nix store.

 

I think the problem is that only the directory /usr/local/guix-git/var/nix/profiles exists, but that it is empty; maybe one should first create the directory $PREFIX/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER if it does not exist yet?

 

Andreas