Re: Guix home, guix system, channels, some noob questions

[Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>]

2022-05-11 / 16:55 / sebastien.rey-coyrehourcq@univ-rouen.fr:

> Hi,
>
> My other question remain about guix home / guix system relation, and sudo, but
> jpoiret found my main problem, my channels.scm are not well defined / not good
> ...
>
> - I made (cons * (channel ...)) (cons* (channel ...)) etc.
>
> - and .. the correct way is (cons * (channel ...) (channel ...))


For the record: Make sure you use (cons* …) and not (cons * …), i.e.
don't add a space there. The identifier is `cons*`. :)


> Everything run fine now with *guix system reconfigure /.config/guix/system.scm*
>
> Best
>
> Le 11/05/2022 à 16:36, Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks Julien,
> >
> > I see on the doc that *sudo* run command as user and not as root like other
> > distro. So, to be sure, if i run *sudo guix something*, i don't change user to
> > run this command isn't it ?
> >
> > Actually i only work with my account "myuser" into group
> > ("users","wheel",etc.) using or not using *sudo* (this is not clear when i
> > need or not) for running *guix* command.
> >
> > About the commands with /.config/guix/channels.scm (see content here
> > https://paste.debian.net/1240553)  :
> >
> > a) *guix describe* and *sudo guix describe* and *sudo -E guix describe* return
> >
> > Génération 7    11 mai 2022 16:01:25    (actuelle)
> >   guix d24ad39
> >     URL du dépôt : https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> >     branche : master
> >     commit : d24ad3949127a938cad306f0524c120afe5e2e4f
> >
> > b) *guix system describe* return
> >
> >
> > Génération 7    10 mai 2022 12:39:34    (actuelle)
> >   nom de fichier : /var/guix/profiles/system-7-link
> >   nom de fichier canonique :
> > /gnu/store/az1ff4ll80dbrbkayc4y0jqgnc2m37mp-system
> >   étiquette : GNU with Linux 5.17.5
> >   chargeur de démarrage : grub-efi
> >   périphérique racine : /dev/mapper/cryptroot
> >   noyau : /gnu/store/0ffifgs0ixgz0bf1pcahkfdkx9f7h720-linux-5.17.5/bzImage
> >   canaux :
> >     nonguix:
> >       URL du dépôt : https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
> >       branche : master
> >       commit : 1de0c32142c54bc73af5556d5e45c77152b31f0f
> >     guix:
> >       URL du dépôt : https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> >       branche : master
> >       commit : d775a24344d4a910f6a19072c595bdafcf104b6f
> >   fichier de configuration :
> > /gnu/store/idr8ds86m69gbx217g5h3qm6m353wliz-configuration.scm
> >
> > c) *guix home describe* return
> >
> >
> > Génération 1    10 mai 2022 16:59:14    (actuelle)
> >   nom de fichier : /var/guix/profiles/per-user/reyman/guix-home-1-link
> >   nom de fichier canonique : /gnu/store/3q599hyjkx8c5ywsdy2gqfmx2bjzgzmm-home
> >   canaux :
> >     flat:
> >       URL du dépôt : https://github.com/flatwhatson/guix-channel.git
> >       branche : master
> >       commit : 094746c1e2e90f2df1e598ab1fd0abb4d75ce84d
> >     guix:
> >       URL du dépôt : https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> >       branche : master
> >       commit : 0f705472126f7b935e0783bcd8fec831b7a0593b
> >   fichier de configuration :
> > /gnu/store/ip90ffd0bzlr7j6kw5ky2pgxpyq1x23c-configuration.scm
> >
> > With jpoiret, i try to resolve the issue on chat, i also try to run manually
> > *guix pull -C ./config/guix/channels.scm* without success.
> >
> > A *command -v guix* return */home/myuser/.config/current/bin/guix*
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > SR
> >
> >
> >
> > Le 11/05/2022 à 12:47, Julien Lepiller a écrit :
> >> Hi Sébastien,
> >>
> >> When you run guix describe, it's running the guix for your user, which miggt
> >> be different from the one you run when you use sudo. That could explain why
> >> the modules are not found. I don't think guix home has anything to do with
> >> that.
> >>
> >> I noticed that the first time you use sudo -E, whereas you use only sudo on
> >> step 5. Mayée that's why it fails?
> >>
> >> I would run sudo guix describe and sudo -E guix describe to see how the two
> >> might be different from your user's guix :)
> >>
> >> HTH!
> >>
> >> On May 11, 2022 11:09:19 AM GMT+02:00, "Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq"
> >> <sebastien.rey-coyrehourcq@univ-rouen.fr> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Hi Guix people :)
> >>
> >>     I'm starting guix, picking information when needed into documentation.
> >>
> >>     I'm facing difficulties with channels.scm since i start using "guix
> >> home", i read the doc page, but i need some other things to understand.
> >>
> >>     Here my logic to start just after install :
> >>
> >>     1 - I modify my //etc/guix/channels.scm/ file to add some modules :
> >> /nonguix/ (my computer don't work well without) and /emacs-native-dep/ from
> >> flatwhatson flat channel.
> >>
> >>     2 - I /guix -E guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm/, /guix pull/, and
> >> everything goes well
> >>
> >>     3 - Like explained in the doc, I run /guix home import ~/src/guix-config
> >> /that generate /a //home-configuration.scm//
> >>     /
> >>
> >>     /4 - /Into /home-configuration.scm///i add the package htop and
> >> /emacs-native-comp/
> >>
> >>     5 - In the guix home doc the next command is /guix home reconfigure
> >> config.scm /but this is probably a typo and i run /guix home reconfigure
> >> ~/src/guix-config/home-configuration.scm/
> >>
> >>     6 - Everything goes well, emacs-native-dep compile during 1 hour,
> >> problems arrive after that.
> >>
> >>     7 - I'm moving the //etc/guix/config.scm/ and //etc/guix/channels.scm /to
> >> my home /~/.config/guix/ , /and i run /sudo guix system reconfigure
> >> ~/.config/guix/system.scm///*, that fail*/, /it seems the module (nongnu and
> >> emacs-native-dep) are not referenced, like the error say /"no code for module
> >> ( nongnu ..." /But when i run /guix system describe/, the corresponding
> >> channel are well defined. /
> >>     /
> >>
> >>     After that, i try many thing, like moving channels.scm and system.scm
> >> back to /etc/guix/ but every reconfigure command fail in link with
> >> channel/module not recognized (emacs-native-dep or nongnu)
> >>
> >>     - /guix home reconfigure ~/src/guix-config/home-configuration.scm/
> >>
> >>     - /guix system reconfigure ~/.config/guix/system.scm/
> >>
> >>     - /guix system reconfigure ~/etc/guix/config.scm/
> >>
> >>     So my question is first, why that fail after switching to guix home ? and
> >> how and where i need to define/set correctly the /channel.scm/ file to repair
> >> that ?
> >>
> >>     For example, /guix system//describe/ and /guix home describe/ and /guix
> >> describe/ return all different channel referenced, how i manage that ?
> >>
> >>     I suppose there is a "workflow to use well guix home"? but this is not
> >> actually in the doc. For example, perhaps after creating and switching to
> >> guix home profile, running guix system is impossible or prohibited ? I
> >> suppose this will be added in the future.
> >>
> >>     Thanks a lot for your help.
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>     Sebastien Rey-C
> >>
> >>
> >>     //
> >>