Re: How to have guile module available during sudo system reconfigure?

[André Batista]

Hi Tomas,

ter 20 ago 2024 às 23:43:33 (1724208213), ~@wolfsden.cz enviou:
> 
> Hello Guix,
> 
> I did run into an interesting (frustrating?) problem.  I created a
> package that bundles few Guile modules of my making.  I installed it
> into my home environment and wanted to use helpers from it in my system
> configuration.  However I am not sure how to do that.
> 
> When I do
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> guix system build some/config.scm
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> The system builds and everything is fine.
> 
> However when try to reconfigure the system using
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> sudo guix system reconfigure some/config.scm
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> It fails with a very descriptive error of
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ice-9/eval.scm:142:16: In procedure compile-top-call:
> error: system-add-luks: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget `(use-modules (wolfsnet systems))'?
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 

I've never done that, but have you tried setting GUILE_LOAD_PATH?

$ sudo GUILE_LOAD_PATH="myguile/modules:$GUILE_LOAD_PATH" guix system 
reconfigure some/config.scm

Cheers,