From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."?
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:59:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muvoruzf.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ems9oi0.fsf@gmail.com>
George Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:
> Oops, I left out the back quotes. I mean ...
>
> eval `guix package -p /var/guix/profiles/system -p PROFILE
> --search-paths=exact`
>
> ... because I understand the doc to say this will give the "_combined_
> search paths" of the two profiles. But I am disappointed that ...
>
> guix package -p znc -i znc
> eval `guix package -p /var/guix/profiles/system -p znc --search-paths`
>
> ... provides znc but no system packages. What am I misunderstanding now?
I replied earlier that the path to your system profile is incomplete.
It should be
/var/guix/profiles/system/profile
but you wrote
/var/guix/profiles/system
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-21 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-21 2:03 How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."? George Clemmer
2018-06-21 9:32 ` Tom Balzer
2018-06-21 10:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-21 14:01 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-21 14:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-21 14:56 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-21 15:59 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-06-21 16:52 ` George Clemmer
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