From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bengt Richter Subject: bug#36870: was: date bug -> locale inconvenience -> suggestion :) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 16:31:48 +0000 Message-ID: <20190806163148.GA7621@PhantoNv4ArchGx.localdomain> References: <20190731062047.GA831@PhantoNv4ArchGx.localdomain> <20190806023802.GA833@PhantoNv4ArchGx.localdomain> <871rxyokbd.fsf@netris.org> Reply-To: Bengt Richter Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52534) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hv2tT-0004I4-EX for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:05:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hv2tS-00084T-Bb for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:05:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57126) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hv2tS-00084I-7D for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:05:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hv2tR-0001z1-RC for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:05:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871rxyokbd.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: 36870@debbugs.gnu.org On +2019-08-06 02:54:03 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi Bengt, > > I'm sorry that I didn't have time to fully read your messages, but if I > understand correctly from my quick skimming, the 'date' command from > Guix is failing to access the zoneinfo. I think I see your problem. > > Bengt Richter writes: > > $ strace -y date|& egrep 'America|^write'|sed -e 's:,:,\n :g' > > openat(AT_FDCWD, > > "/gnu/store/h90vnqw0nwd0hhm1l5dgxsdrigddfmq4-glibc-2.28/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles", > > O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > > The file name above suggests that your TZDIR variable is not set > correctly to allow Guix-built binaries to find the zoneinfo files. > > On Guix systems, /etc/environment includes an entry that sets TZDIR to > the equivalent of "$(guix build tzdata)/share/zoneinfo". > > When using Guix on top of another distro, an alternative choice might be > to set TZDIR to "/usr/share/zoneinfo". I'm not sure which setting is > preferable on non-Guix systems. > > Can you try setting TZDIR and see if that solves the problem for you? > > Regards, > Mark Thanks, that works using either /usr/... or /gnu/... but I am thinking everything guix should be accessed via some profile if it's configurable? There is already a suggestion to source like this: GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-profile" . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile" I think it would be nice if that were the only ~/.bash_profile mod a foreign-system user would have to make to tie into the guix packages such user installs with guix install. So what about having that GUIX_PROFILE profile -- at its end -- source ~/.guixrc if it exists, and then when some installation wants to suggest some environment settings, just automatically append commented-out code to ~/.guixrc. Then the friendly hints at then end of an install could suggest: ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ "Consider uncommenting some of the new │ │ lines we just added at the end of ~/.guixrc" │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ (sorry if utf8 box-drawing characters are a nono here -- are they? ;-/ ) I had noticed the TZDIR name looking with "guix edit tzdata", and was trying to figure out why installing had not hinted that I might need to do what you suggest above :) Thanks again. Regards, Bengt Richter