Re: How can I replace Python venv and pip with Guix?

[sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>]

 ---- On Tue, 04 Feb 2020 09:02:36 -0500 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote ----
 > 
 > sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com> writes:
 > 
 > > • Once I deactivate this environment (Ctrl+D), how can I activate it again?
 > 
 > It’s a matter of evaluating the etc/profile file that is generated for
 > every Guix profile.  Since you passed
 > 
 >     --root=/path/to/my-guix-envs/my-project
 > 
 > to “guix environment” there will be a file
 > 
 >     /path/to/my-guix-envs/my-project/etc/profile
 > 
 > You can set all the environment variables it defines with
 > 
 >     GUIX_PROFILE=/path/to/my-guix-envs/my-project
 >     source $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile
 > 
 > If you want a pure environment you can use “env”.  On our HPC cluster I
 > provide “activate” scripts like this one:
 > 
 > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
 > #!/bin/bash
 > 
 > profile=/path/to/.guix-profile
 > prompt='\u@\h:\W \[\e[31;47;1m\][pigx]\[\e[m\] $ '
 > 
 > REAL_HOME=$HOME
 > exec /bin/env - PS1="$prompt" \
 >                 HOME=$REAL_HOME \
 >                 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 \
 >                 GUIX_LOCPATH="$profile/lib/locale" \
 >                 CURL_CA_BUNDLE="/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt" \
 >                 /bin/bash --init-file "$profile/etc/profile"
 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
 > 
 > It sets a few environment variables, recovers some variables that are
 > important, and then starts a sub-shell that uses the generated
 > etc/profile file as its init file.
 > 
 > Something like that might work for you.


Thank you, Ricardo :)