Re: attempt to create a profile

[Gottfried]

Hi Simon,

I didn’t manage yet to get into my profile.
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I created a profile with one package "Musescore" in:


home/gfp/Projekte/Musescore

in the directory "Musescore" I have got 2 directories:

"guix-profil" and "guix-profil-1-link"

and

one file:

"guix-profil.lock" (0 Bytes)

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I should get into my profile with:

source path/to/some-profile/etc/profile
   …do some stuff…
   exit

Instead, you can run
    guix shell -p path/to/some-profile
    …do some stuff…
    exit
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What does it mean in my case?



Kind regards

Gottfried



Am 06.02.23 um 18:21 schrieb Simon Tournier:
> Hi,
>
> On sam., 04 févr. 2023 at 23:36, Kyle Andrews <kyle@posteo.net> wrote:
>
> > >      guix shell -p path/to/some-profile/etc/profile
>
> This command is incorrect and it should read instead,
>
>      guix shell -p path/to/some-profile
>
> but anyway, it was the idea. :-)
>
>
> > Is it possible to use guix shell to activate multiple existing profiles
> > in a particular order to explicitly test for incompatibilities when
> > combining profiles?
>
> Well, I am not aware about a way to compose some profiles with “guix
> shell”.  Indeed, it should be possible, IMHO.  But I have not checked if
> it is technically possible.  Maybe it is already. :-)
>
>
> > In conclusion, I'm a bit surprised that activating multiple profiles at
> > once is so easily found and recommended in the cookbook. It seems to me
> > like there are many underemphasized gotchas with respect to
> > reproducibility and usability which come from it and as far as I can
> > tell, the main developers of Guix do not use it that way. If it is going
> > to be recommended as atleast a possibility for advanced users, then it
> > would be nice to be able to formally test that usage through ~guix shell~.
>
> I am using multiple profiles and I barely hit collisions.  Given one
> specific revision of Guix, collisions should not be possible – it means
> something is wrong somewhere with package definition; although, maybe it
> is impossible to avoid some collisions with large number of packages,
> anyway. :-)
>
> Most of the time, collisions happen when the profile are coming from
> different revision of Guix.  And try to combine several profiles from
> different revision is, IMHO, some source of troubles impossible to
> solve.
>
> That’s said, yes I would also like being able to combine several
> profiles and also extend the result.
>
>
> Cheers,
> simon

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