From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Few notes to 0.8 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 22:31:52 +0100 Message-ID: <87ppc7106v.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49087) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuT8z-0000Ga-K7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:32:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuT8t-0006Yj-OO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:32:01 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:43081) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XuT8t-0006Xv-Db for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:31:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Adam Pribyl's message of "Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:41:03 +0100 (CET)") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Adam Pribyl Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Adam Pribyl skribis: > I have now, with the help of people from this list, running > installation, with more or less complete config.scm. Guix gets better > with every version. Thanks for the detailed feedback, as usual! > 1. even thou networking and lsh-service are configured, networking > does not start, "deco status networking" prints it is running and is > e.g. PID 186, but there is no such process... weird as it should > respawn. Are you using =E2=80=98dhcp-client-service=E2=80=99? What does =E2=80=98ps aux | grep dhc=E2=80=99 show? > 2. during boot the system twice sets the console font, each time to a > different one (this is not always reproducible). Minor. Hmm, you mean on the same tty? > 3. fstab is not "used", I am not sure how to mount additional file > systems and swap. Right. I used the =E2=80=98mount=E2=80=99 command, and I would use =E2=80= =98swapon=E2=80=99, but yes, it would be useful to be able to populate /etc/fstab so one can easily mount a pre-defined file system. > 4. I do not have e.g. /root/.guix-profile/sbin in PATH by default, not > sure why. I see, that=E2=80=99s because =E2=80=98root=E2=80=99 is not created with = =E2=80=98useradd=E2=80=99, so it does not get .bashrc from the Shadow skeletons. > 5. still strugglig in how to install a package for global use, > probably only thru a "guix system reconfigure" otherwise every user > has to do a "guix package -i" to get the app into his profile. To install a package for global use, just add it to the =E2=80=98packages= =E2=80=99 field of =E2=80=98operating-system=E2=80=99, and run =E2=80=98guix system reconfi= gure=E2=80=99. I find it more convenient to have most packages managed in my user account. > 6. I am still not able to add any service myself, You mean to add a service definition? > if there is at least something like rc.local available, it would be > fine to have a last resort to start anything upon boot. Yeah I=E2=80=99m not sure exactly how to do it. I think the priority shoul= d be to make the =E2=80=9Cregular=E2=80=9D service mechanism be more usable for = non experts. > 7. Not sure how to properly add a user (again guix system reconfigure > would help), as useradd makes the usuall unix user, but is missing > some other things like a build directory... Yes, the =E2=80=98users=E2=80=99 field, and then run =E2=80=98reconfigure= =E2=80=99. =E2=80=98useradd=E2=80=99 should work as well, but user accounts created th= at way are not under Guix control. What do you mean by =E2=80=9Cbuild directory=E2=80=9D here? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.