profile symlinks structure

profile symlinks structure

[vapnik spaknik]

Hi,
    please could someone help me understand how guix organizes profile symlinks?
I can't find a full explanation anywhere.
So far I have figured out the following:

 - original profile directories are named like: /gnu/store/<UID>-profile
 - /var/guix/profiles/per-user/<USR>/ contains symlinks to the profiles associated with user <USR>
 - symlinks in /var/guix/profiles/per-user/<USR>/ seem to take one of the following forms:

   current-guix
   current-guix-<N>-link
   guix-profile
   guix-profile-<N>-link

    

 - the profile used by "guix package" for user <USR> is symlinked from: 
      ~/.guix-profile -> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/<USR>/guix-profile
 - symlinks to previous generations of that profile are stored as:
      /var/guix/profiles/per-user/<USR>/guix-profile-<N>-link
     where <N> is the generation number
 - the profile used by "guix pull" for user <USR> is symlinked from:
      ~/.config/guix/current -> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/ 

Re: profile symlinks structure

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Hi!

It seems that you've got it right so far! :)

You'll find more profiles in /var/guix/gcroots/auto: these are the roots
that are automatically created, e.g. when using the `guix package --profile=...`
among others.

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Re: profile symlinks structure

[vapnik spaknik via]

 Thankyou. 
Btw, the email at the top of this thread was sent by mistake before I had finished writing it. I will continue correspondence on the next thread which contains the complete message.
     On Monday, May 25, 2020, 08:59:33 AM GMT+1, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:  
 
 Hi!

It seems that you've got it right so far! :)

You'll find more profiles in /var/guix/gcroots/auto: these are the roots
that are automatically created, e.g. when using the `guix package --profile=...`
among others.