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bug#56610: Guix Home placing dotfiles in wrong directory.
From: |
Andrew Tropin |
Subject: |
bug#56610: Guix Home placing dotfiles in wrong directory. |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:31:19 +0300 |
On 2022-07-17 03:07, Raghav Gururajan via Bug reports for wrote:
> Hello Guix,
>
> home-files-service-type is placing configuration files in `~/config/foo`
> instead of `~/.config/foo`.
>
> For example, the following guix-home service should place the git
> configuration in ~/.config/git`. But it creates a new directory
> `~/config/git` and places the file there.
It's intended https://yhetil.org/guix-devel/87v8w2se04.fsf@trop.in/
Updates to the documentation is on the way:
https://yhetil.org/guix-patches/87h74abbn6.fsf@trop.in/
>
> (simple-service 'git-config
> home-files-service-type
In this case, it's better to use home-xdg-configuration-files instead of
home-files.
> (list
> `("config/git/config"
> ,(local-file
> (string-append (getenv "HOME")
Just a tip for finer reproducibility of the configuration: it's better
to avoid using environment variables, files outside of the project
directory and other thing, which make code impure/dependening on global
state.
> "/dotfiles/git/config")))))
>
> It started happening recently, so will try to bisect.
--
Best regards,
Andrew Tropin
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