bug#67800: File guix-publish.service missing on foreign distro installations

bug#67800: File guix-publish.service missing on foreign distro installations

[Philippe SWARTVAGHER]

Hello,

I'm running Guix on a foreign distro, Debian, with systemd. I installed 
Guix with the shell installer script.

The documentation 
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-publish.html 
mentions (at the bottom) that I can execute the following command to 
enable the Guix Publish service:

ln -s ~root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-publish.service 
/etc/systemd/system/

However, the file 
~root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-publish.service does not 
exist (actually, ~/root/.guix-profile doesn't exist).


Philippe.

bug#67800: File guix-publish.service missing on foreign distro installations

[Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Hi Philippe,

Philippe SWARTVAGHER <philippe.swartvagher@inria.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm running Guix on a foreign distro, Debian, with systemd. I installed 
> Guix with the shell installer script.
>
> The documentation 
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-publish.html 
> mentions (at the bottom) that I can execute the following command to 
> enable the Guix Publish service:
>
> ln -s ~root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-publish.service 
> /etc/systemd/system/
>
> However, the file 
> ~root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-publish.service does not 
> exist (actually, ~/root/.guix-profile doesn't exist).

As a temporary workaround, you can install the `guix` package in the
root's profile.

The problem stems from the fact that the `guix pull`-built guix doesn't
include many extras that the Makefile-built guix has, like that file.
Maybe we should include it in the `guix pull` build, so that it is
easily available and updated?

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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