From: "Daniel Meißner" <daniel.meissner-i4k@rub.de>
To: Holger Peters <holger.peters@posteo.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How is .guix-home created?
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 15:09:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E865124-8E39-4A99-82D0-5D212E8A7E17@rub.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <678EF792-182B-41EC-A32E-7C65E82BDB9D@posteo.de>
Hi Holger,
Holger Peters schreibt:
>So, I am running guix on top of a Debian testing, just to provide the
>context that I am operating in. I found
>https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Home-Configuration.html
>and what is missing is how the ~/.guix-home directory is created (I
>assume it is created by .guix-home). Or, to phrase it from another angle,
>how do I connect the home-configuration as in
>https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Declaring-the-Home-Environment.html
>with guix-home.
The ~/.guix-home directory is created by the `guix home' command automatically. The manual says:
> The home environment is configured by providing a home-environment declaration in a file that can be passed to the guix home command (see Invoking guix home).
So, after you wrote your home-enviroment declaration, say in the file myhome.scm, you'd invoke
$ guix home reconfigure myhome.scm
which will create the ~/.guix-home directory as well as the appropiate ~/.bash_profile file if your home-environment also contains a shell configuration (this is recommended). No worries about existing config files, guix home will back them up for you.
Best
Daniel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-16 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-16 5:54 How is .guix-home created? Holger Peters
2021-10-16 12:35 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2021-10-19 20:03 ` Holger Peters
2021-10-16 13:09 ` Daniel Meißner [this message]
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