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per-user profile directory not created/mentioned |
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Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:31:14 +0100 |
Hi guix,
the manual does not mention that a per-user profile directory owned by
the user account has to be created after installation of guix.
On a fresh installation of the package manager the missing profile
directory is mentioned only after attempting to run a guix command.
Cheers,
rekado
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Re: bug#19315: per-user profile directory not created/mentioned |
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Sun, 04 Jan 2015 23:43:46 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> rekado <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> the manual does not mention that a per-user profile directory owned by
>> the user account has to be created after installation of guix.
>
> It actually does, under “Invoking guix package” (see
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html#Invoking-guix-package>):
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> In a multi-user setup, user profiles must be stored in a place
> registered as a "garbage-collector root", which ‘$HOME/.guix-profile’
> points to (*note Invoking guix gc::). That directory is normally
> ‘LOCALSTATEDIR/profiles/per-user/USER’, where LOCALSTATEDIR is the value
> passed to ‘configure’ as ‘--localstatedir’, and USER is the user name.
> It must be created by ‘root’, with USER as the owner. When it does not
> exist, or is not owned by USER, ‘guix package’ emits an error about it.
>
> Would you suggest making it more prominent somehow?
Commit 15ddeff merges code from nix-daemon. Among other things, it adds
code to create this ‘profiles/per-user’ directory with appropriate
permissions (see LocalStore::LocalStore(bool reserveSpace) in
local-store.cc.)
Commit 4379c35 updates the manual accordingly.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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