Hi Andrew, Andrew Tropin writes: > Command and subbcommands allowing to manage home environment with guix. > > Andrew Tropin (2): > scripts: Add 'guix home'. > scripts: home: Add import subcommand. > > Makefile.am | 3 + > guix/scripts/home.scm | 512 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > guix/scripts/home/import.scm | 241 +++++++++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 756 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 guix/scripts/home.scm > create mode 100644 guix/scripts/home/import.scm I applied your patches and also fixed a typo in gnu/home-services/xdg.scm file, which I noticed during Geiser entering (guix scripts home) module about missing ‘home-services-utils’, which should be ‘home-services utils’. Pushed to wip-guix-home. Also, I tried to use guix home for the first time as documented at site [1], and got an error: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (string-append #f "/" "profile/share/fonts") In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #f --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- [1] https://guix-home.trop.in/Declaring-the-Home-Environment.html The following text in the message is only about the error. oleg@guixsd ~/src/guix-wip-guix-home$ mkdir /tmp/guix oleg@guixsd ~/src/guix-wip-guix-home$ guix pull --url=file:///home/oleg/src/guix-wip-guix-home --branch=wip-guix-home -p /tmp/guix/guix ~/.local/share/chezmoi/dotfiles/guixsd/home.scm: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (use-modules (gnu home) (gnu home-services) ;; (gnu home-services ssh) (gnu home-services shells) ;; (gnu home-services files) (gnu services) (gnu packages admin) (guix gexp) (ice-9 rdelim)) (define %home (and=> (getenv "HOME") (lambda (home) home))) (define .bash_profile (string-append %home "/.local/share/chezmoi/dot_bash_profile")) (home-environment ;; (packages (list htop)) (services (list (service home-bash-service-type (home-bash-configuration (guix-defaults? #t) (bash-profile (list (with-input-from-file .bash_profile read-string))))) ;; XXX: missing home-files-service-type ;; (simple-service 'test-config ;; home-files-service-type ;; (list `("config/test.conf" ;; ,(plain-file "tmp-file.txt" ;; "the content of ~/.config/test.conf")))) ;; XXX: missing home-ssh-configuration ;; (service home-ssh-service-type ;; (home-ssh-configuration ;; (extra-config ;; (list ;; (ssh-host "savannah" ;; '((compression . #f))))))) ))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- My first guix home reconfigure launch: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- oleg@guixsd ~/src/guix-wip-guix-home$ /tmp/guix/guix/bin/guix home reconfigure ~/.local/share/chezmoi/dotfiles/guixsd/home.scm /gnu/store/xl4igqm0jjy7gfbganz9061ivdgzfpdk-home New symlinks to home-environment will be created soon. All conflicting files will go to /home/oleg/1630407324-guix-home-legacy-configs-backup. Skipping /home/oleg/.config (directory already exists)... done Creating /home/oleg/.config/fontconfig... done Symlinking /home/oleg/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf -> /gnu/store/phj2z2iiqdhryfy7mqral0b9qz3hlva6-fonts.conf... done Backing up /home/oleg/.bashrc... done Symlinking /home/oleg/.bashrc -> /gnu/store/513j2xkszmcmv7fiawh59mr0i1fmin55-bashrc... done Symlinking /home/oleg/.profile -> /gnu/store/fxbppk3pqzdi3zzy0xl5vg1ir6c5jzq5-shell-profile... done Backing up /home/oleg/.bash_profile... done Symlinking /home/oleg/.bash_profile -> /gnu/store/2c3yva8vj5ikb0gspmjvzw0r9g9i1cxc-bash_profile... done done Finished updating symlinks. Backtrace: In guix/ui.scm: 2185:7 19 (run-guix . _) 2148:10 18 (run-guix-command _ . _) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 1752:10 17 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _) In guix/status.scm: 820:3 16 (_) 800:4 15 (call-with-status-report _ _) In guix/scripts/home.scm: 214:4 14 (_) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 1752:10 13 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _) In guix/store.scm: 658:37 12 (thunk) 1320:8 11 (call-with-build-handler _ _) 1320:8 10 (call-with-build-handler # …) 2108:24 9 (run-with-store # …) In guix/scripts/home.scm: 169:15 8 (_ _) In unknown file: 7 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/xl4igqm0jjy7gfbganz9061ivdg…") In ice-9/eval.scm: 619:8 6 (_ #(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#<…> …) …) …) …) …) …) …) …) …) …)) 626:19 5 (_ #(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#<…> …) …) …) …) …) …) …) …) …) …)) In srfi/srfi-1.scm: 586:17 4 (map1 (("profile/share/fonts" (system* "/gnu/stor…" …)))) In ice-9/eval.scm: 293:34 3 (_ #(#(# #) #)) In unknown file: 2 (string-append #f "/" "profile/share/fonts") In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 1685:16 1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) 1685:16 0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception: In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #f --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I skipped the error and tried to configure Bash more: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (define .bashrc (string-append %home "/.local/share/chezmoi/dot_bashrc")) ;; ... (home-bash-configuration ;; ... (bashrc (list (with-input-from-file .bashrc read-string)))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Another launch, no errors this time: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- oleg@guixsd ~/src/guix-wip-guix-home$ /tmp/guix/guix/bin/guix home reconfigure ~/.local/share/chezmoi/dotfiles/guixsd/home.scm substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% The following derivations will be built: /gnu/store/fn1hzpyic1k32pamyf45vwa0x3lw046g-home.drv /gnu/store/akdwz30lx0widqvyqmnkya45cb78f74d-files.drv /gnu/store/xcvi7n1l0fvsm099x2vyg6xci0qkayzp-bashrc.drv /gnu/store/pm1gw2xakkqj0zxsbbq0jnwgv3v95ajj-provenance.drv building /gnu/store/pm1gw2xakkqj0zxsbbq0jnwgv3v95ajj-provenance.drv... successfully built /gnu/store/pm1gw2xakkqj0zxsbbq0jnwgv3v95ajj-provenance.drv building /gnu/store/xcvi7n1l0fvsm099x2vyg6xci0qkayzp-bashrc.drv... successfully built /gnu/store/xcvi7n1l0fvsm099x2vyg6xci0qkayzp-bashrc.drv building /gnu/store/akdwz30lx0widqvyqmnkya45cb78f74d-files.drv... successfully built /gnu/store/akdwz30lx0widqvyqmnkya45cb78f74d-files.drv building /gnu/store/fn1hzpyic1k32pamyf45vwa0x3lw046g-home.drv... successfully built /gnu/store/fn1hzpyic1k32pamyf45vwa0x3lw046g-home.drv /gnu/store/1y84hzz1m1c3jw03n2g8hn9wwyxngab3-home Cleaning up symlinks from previous home-environment. Removing /home/oleg/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf... done Removing /home/oleg/.config/fontconfig... done Skipping /home/oleg/.config (not an empty directory)... done Removing /home/oleg/.bashrc... done Removing /home/oleg/.profile... done Removing /home/oleg/.bash_profile... done Cleanup finished. New symlinks to home-environment will be created soon. All conflicting files will go to /home/oleg/1630407412-guix-home-legacy-configs-backup. Skipping /home/oleg/.config (directory already exists)... done Creating /home/oleg/.config/fontconfig... done Symlinking /home/oleg/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf -> /gnu/store/phj2z2iiqdhryfy7mqral0b9qz3hlva6-fonts.conf... done Symlinking /home/oleg/.bashrc -> /gnu/store/lf51wflmvx91m2jx8hx3j34qs9x1k153-bashrc... done Symlinking /home/oleg/.profile -> /gnu/store/fxbppk3pqzdi3zzy0xl5vg1ir6c5jzq5-shell-profile... done Symlinking /home/oleg/.bash_profile -> /gnu/store/2c3yva8vj5ikb0gspmjvzw0r9g9i1cxc-bash_profile... done done Finished updating symlinks. Comparing /gnu/store/xl4igqm0jjy7gfbganz9061ivdgzfpdk-home/profile/share/fonts and /gnu/store/1y84hzz1m1c3jw03n2g8hn9wwyxngab3-home/profile/share/fonts... done (same) Evaling on-change gexps. On-change gexps evaluation finished. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Oleg.