bug#56610: Guix Home placing dotfiles in wrong directory.

bug#56610: Guix Home placing dotfiles in wrong directory.

[Raghav Gururajan via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

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Hello Guix,

home-files-service-type is placing configuration files in `~/config/foo` 
instead of `~/.config/foo`.

For example, the following guix-home service should place the git 
configuration in ~/.config/git`. But it creates a new directory 
`~/config/git` and places the file there.

     (simple-service 'git-config
                     home-files-service-type
                     (list
                      `("config/git/config"
                        ,(local-file
                          (string-append (getenv "HOME")
                                         "/dotfiles/git/config")))))

It started happening recently, so will try to bisect.

Regards,
RG.

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bug#56610: Guix Home placing dotfiles in wrong directory.

[Oleg Pykhalov]

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Hi,

Raghav Gururajan via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> writes:

> home-files-service-type is placing configuration files in `~/config/foo`
> instead of `~/.config/foo`.
>
> For example, the following guix-home service should place the git
> configuration in ~/.config/git`. But it creates a new directory `~/config/git`
> and places the file there.
>
>     (simple-service 'git-config
>                     home-files-service-type
>                     (list
>                      `("config/git/config"
>                        ,(local-file
>                          (string-append (getenv "HOME")
>                                         "/dotfiles/git/config")))))
>
> It started happening recently, so will try to bisect.

It's not a bug, use ‘`(".config/git/config" ,(local-file ...))’.

I'll close the issue if you don't mind.

Oleg.

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bug#56610: Guix Home placing dotfiles in wrong directory.

[Andrew Tropin]

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On 2022-07-17 03:07, Raghav Gururajan via Bug reports for wrote:

> Hello Guix,
>
> home-files-service-type is placing configuration files in `~/config/foo` 
> instead of `~/.config/foo`.
>
> For example, the following guix-home service should place the git 
> configuration in ~/.config/git`. But it creates a new directory 
> `~/config/git` and places the file there.

It's intended https://yhetil.org/guix-devel/87v8w2se04.fsf@trop.in/

Updates to the documentation is on the way:
https://yhetil.org/guix-patches/87h74abbn6.fsf@trop.in/

>
> (simple-service 'git-config
>                      home-files-service-type

In this case, it's better to use home-xdg-configuration-files instead of
home-files.

>                      (list
>                       `("config/git/config"
>                         ,(local-file
>                           (string-append (getenv "HOME")

Just a tip for finer reproducibility of the configuration: it's better
to avoid using environment variables, files outside of the project
directory and other thing, which make code impure/dependening on global
state.

>                                          "/dotfiles/git/config")))))
>
> It started happening recently, so will try to bisect.

-- 
Best regards,
Andrew Tropin

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