From: 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 20255@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20255: 'search-paths' should respect both user and system profile.
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 16:28:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2wnqvga.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhh43tn0.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Or better to generate a 'profile' script for each manifest, and then
>> merged in shell level, so it can work out-of-the-box. How about:
>> - /etc/profile:
>> # configuration for the whole system goes here.
>> # shouldn't refer profile paths.
>> export LANG=en_US.utf8
>> export SSL_CERT_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs
>> export LINUX_MODULE_DIRECTORY=/run/booted-system/kernel/lib/modules
>> [...]
>>
>> source /run/current-system/profile/etc/profile
>>
>> if [ -f $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile ]; then
>> source $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile
>> fi
>>
>> # honor setuid-programs
>> export PATH=/run/setuid-programs:$PATH
>>
>> - /run/current-system/profile/etc/profile:
>> export PATH=/run/current-system/profile/bin:/run/current-system/profile/sbin:$PATH
>> export MANPATH=/run/current-system/profile/share/man:$PATH
>> [...]
>>
>> - ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile:
>> export PATH=~/.guix-profile/bin:~/.guix-profile/sbin:$PATH
>> [...]
>
> There’s a further complication here: ‘profile-derivation’, which builds
> the profile, doesn’t know its user-visible name ~/.guix-profile. It
> just knows its store file name. However, we don’t want etc/profile to
> read:
>
> export PATH=/gnu/store/...-profile/bin:$PATH
>
> because then, the user’s environment variables in a running session
> would keep pointing to a given profile generation.
Indeed. Run guix to install a package should make it available
immediately. Currently, we have 'PATH=~/.guix-profile/bin' in
profile and print hint for additional variables.
(Note that when profile changes, even we build all variables with the
location they going to be, a hint or re-source is still needed when the
new profile bring new variables.)
>
> So we have to tell ‘profile-generation’ what the user-visible name of
> the profile is going to be. Attached is a very rough patch to do that.
> This is not so nice because all user interfaces will now have to pass
> that #:target parameter or etc/profile will be “wrong.”
>
> Another option would be to simply run:
>
> eval `guix package -p ~/.guix-profile --search-paths`
>
> This has two downsides:
>
> 1. It takes ~200 ms to run on my laptop, which can maybe be
> noticeable; OTOH it’s only for interactive shells, so maybe that’s
> OK.
>
> 2. If there’s a manifest format change and /etc/profile calls a ‘guix’
> command that cannot handle the manifest format (because it’s older
> than the ‘guix’ used to build the profile), then it doesn’t work at
> all (that’s a bit contrived, but not completely impossible.)
>
> Thoughts?
>
How about using a shell variable as input for the location:
(replace /gnu/store/xxx with $GUIX_PROFILE)
# etc/profile
export PATH=$GUIX_PROFILE/bin:$PATH
export MANPATH=$GUIX_PROFILE/share/man:$MANPATH
...
Then when 'source' it, we pass the location:
(we did know where $GUIX_PROFILE is when do the 'source')
# ~/.bash_profile
GUIX_PROFILE=$HOME/.guix-profile
if [ -f $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile ]; then
. $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile
fi
# /etc/profile
GUIX_PROFILE=/run/current-system/profile
source $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-05 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-04 10:29 bug#20255: 'search-paths' should respect both user and system profile 宋文武
2015-04-04 21:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-05 3:39 ` 宋文武
2015-04-05 18:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-06 4:02 ` 宋文武
2015-04-06 8:24 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-05-02 22:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-19 22:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-20 22:42 ` Alex Kost
2015-11-21 8:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-21 18:41 ` Alex Kost
2015-11-21 20:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-22 7:52 ` Alex Kost
2015-11-22 10:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-22 18:44 ` Alex Kost
2015-11-22 23:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-23 11:55 ` Alex Kost
2015-11-23 14:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-24 17:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-30 9:08 ` Alex Kost
2015-11-30 12:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-04 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-05 8:28 ` 宋文武 [this message]
2015-05-05 12:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-06 16:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-12 11:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-21 15:53 ` bug#20255: (old)bug#20255: 'search-paths' should respect both user and system profiles zimoun
2020-02-21 17:18 ` Alex Kost
2021-06-26 2:37 ` bug#20255: 'search-paths' should respect both user and system profile Maxim Cournoyer
2021-06-26 5:59 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-28 4:35 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-06-28 6:58 ` Leo Prikler
2021-06-27 9:59 ` Alex Kost
2021-06-28 4:48 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-06-29 17:29 ` Alex Kost
2020-12-18 20:27 ` bug#20255: «the Oldest» [PATCH] 'search-paths' should respect both user and system profiles zimoun
2023-05-12 12:34 ` bug#20255: 'search-paths' should respect both user and system profile 宋文武 via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-05-15 13:53 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-05-15 17:14 ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-05-15 17:46 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-05-16 9:37 ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-05-16 11:00 ` 宋文武 via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-05-17 14:04 ` bug#20255: [PATCH 1/4] home: shells: Merge search-paths of multiple profiles iyzsong--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-05-17 14:04 ` bug#20255: [PATCH 2/4] system: default-skeletons: Set up Guix home profile when it exists iyzsong--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-05-17 14:04 ` bug#20255: [PATCH 3/4] system: Only source system profile's settings in '/etc/profile' iyzsong--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-05-17 14:04 ` bug#20255: [PATCH 4/4] news: Add entry for '/etc/profile' changes iyzsong--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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