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Subject: |
reconfigure does not recreate ~/.guix-profile |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:43:12 -0400 |
Hey guix,
;tldr guix system reconfigure does not create a ~/.guix-profile, if
the file was deleted, nor does it change the symlink if the username
changed.
This seems like 2 tiny bugs. I recently installed guix on my Thinkpad
T400. (Thanks by the way! Sway works wonderfully!) When I first
created my user my user line looked like
#+BEGIN_SRC scheme
(user-account
(name "Joshua Branson")
(comment "Joshua Branson")
(group "users")
(home-directory "/home/joshua")
(supplementary-groups
'("wheel" "netdev" "audio" "video")))
#+END_SRC scheme
Later I changed the user name to '(name "joshua")' and reconfigured.
Guix was smart enough to create a new profile for me, but
.guix-profile still pointed to user account "Joshua Branson" not
"joshua".
$ cd ~/; ls -lha .guix-profile
.guix-profile -> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/Joshua Branson/guix-profile
So I removed .guix-profile and reconfigured.
$ rm ~/.guix-profile
# sudo guix system reconfigure sway.scm
I thought that guix is declarative, so it will recreate .guix-profile,
but it did not.
Thanks,
Joshua
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Re: bug#37387: reconfigure does not recreate ~/.guix-profile |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:05:10 +0200 |
User-agent: |
mu4e 1.2.0; emacs 26.2 |
Hi Joshua,
> ;tldr guix system reconfigure does not create a ~/.guix-profile
This is not a bug.
“guix system reconfigure” will never create .guix-profile. That’s not
what it’s supposed to do.
~/.guix-profile is created when a profile is generated and installed,
i.e. when a user installs their first package.
--
Ricardo
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