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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#19315: per-user profile directory not created/mentioned
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 23:43:46 +0100
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To: rekado <rekado@elephly.net>
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> rekado <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> the manual does not mention that a per-user profile directory owned by
>> the user account has to be created after installation of guix.
>
> It actually does, under =E2=80=9CInvoking guix package=E2=80=9D (see
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.=
html#Invoking-guix-package>):
>
>      In a multi-user setup, user profiles must be stored in a place
>   registered as a "garbage-collector root", which =E2=80=98$HOME/.guix-pr=
ofile=E2=80=99
>   points to (*note Invoking guix gc::).  That directory is normally
>   =E2=80=98LOCALSTATEDIR/profiles/per-user/USER=E2=80=99, where LOCALSTAT=
EDIR is the value
>   passed to =E2=80=98configure=E2=80=99 as =E2=80=98--localstatedir=E2=80=
=99, and USER is the user name.
>   It must be created by =E2=80=98root=E2=80=99, with USER as the owner.  =
When it does not
>   exist, or is not owned by USER, =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99 emits an=
 error about it.
>
> Would you suggest making it more prominent somehow?

Commit 15ddeff merges code from nix-daemon.  Among other things, it adds
code to create this =E2=80=98profiles/per-user=E2=80=99 directory with appr=
opriate
permissions (see LocalStore::LocalStore(bool reserveSpace) in
local-store.cc.)

Commit 4379c35 updates the manual accordingly.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.