From: John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Cc: John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
Subject: [PATCH] $HOME/.guix-profile considered harmful.
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 20:18:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1473704299-8703-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> (raw)
I have my /home NFS mounted (not uncommon in large networks, I think).
Unfortunately this does not play nicely with guix's convention of setting
$PATH &c to $HOME/.guix-profile and then linking $HOME/.guix-profile to
%state-directory/profiles/per-user/$USER/guix_profile - for the obvious reason
that %state-directory could be different on each workstation - in which case
$HOME/.guix-profile will be a dead link.
I'm not sure exactly what benefit the ~/.guix-profile convention brings us, except
perhaps that it is easy to remember.
I'd like to see the ability to have GuixSD deployable in medium-large intranets
where home (and /var/mail) are remotely mounted filesystems. Hence I suggest that
$HOME/.guix-profile is deprecated.
The following patch fixes part of the problem on my system.
---
gnu/system.scm | 25 ++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/system.scm b/gnu/system.scm
index 7edb018..dbdb2f6 100644
--- a/gnu/system.scm
+++ b/gnu/system.scm
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@
#:use-module (guix packages)
#:use-module (guix derivations)
#:use-module (guix profiles)
+ #:use-module (guix config)
#:use-module (guix ui)
#:use-module (gnu packages base)
#:use-module (gnu packages bash)
@@ -405,14 +407,15 @@ directory."
;; Startup file for POSIX-compliant login shells, which set system-wide
;; environment variables.
- (profile (mixed-text-file "profile" "\
+ (profile (mixed-text-file "profile" (format #f "\
# Crucial variables that could be missing in the profiles' 'etc/profile'
# because they would require combining both profiles.
# FIXME: See <http://bugs.gnu.org/20255>.
-export MANPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/share/man:/run/current-system/profile/share/man
-export INFOPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/share/info:/run/current-system/profile/share/info
-export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$HOME/.guix-profile/share:/run/current-system/profile/share
-export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/xdg:/run/current-system/profile/etc/xdg
+guix_profile=~a/profiles/per-user/$USER/guix-profile
+export MANPATH=$guix_profile/share/man:/run/current-system/profile/share/man
+export INFOPATH=$guix_profile/share/info:/run/current-system/profile/share/info
+export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$guix_profile/share:/run/current-system/profile/share
+export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$guix_profile/etc/xdg:/run/current-system/profile/etc/xdg
# Ignore the default value of 'PATH'.
unset PATH
@@ -435,15 +438,15 @@ then
export `cat /etc/environment | cut -d= -f1`
fi
-if [ -f \"$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile\" ]
+if [ -f \"$guix_profile/etc/profile\" ]
then
# Load the user profile's settings.
- GUIX_PROFILE=\"$HOME/.guix-profile\" \\
- . \"$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile\"
+ GUIX_PROFILE=\"$guix_profile\" \\
+ . \"$guix_profile/etc/profile\"
else
# At least define this one so that basic things just work
# when the user installs their first package.
- export PATH=\"$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:$PATH\"
+ export PATH=\"$guix_profile/bin:$PATH\"
fi
# Set the umask, notably for users logging in via 'lsh'.
@@ -451,14 +454,14 @@ fi
umask 022
# Allow GStreamer-based applications to find plugins.
-export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=\"$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/gstreamer-1.0\"
+export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=\"$guix_profile/lib/gstreamer-1.0\"
if [ -n \"$BASH_VERSION\" -a -f /etc/bashrc ]
then
# Load Bash-specific initialization code.
. /etc/bashrc
fi
-"))
+" %state-directory)))
(bashrc (plain-file "bashrc" "\
# Bash-specific initialization.
--
2.1.4
next reply other threads:[~2016-09-12 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-12 18:18 John Darrington [this message]
2016-09-13 1:32 ` [PATCH] $HOME/.guix-profile considered harmful Christopher Allan Webber
2016-09-13 8:35 ` Vincent Legoll
2016-09-13 17:47 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-09-13 21:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
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