Re: skeleton files in sub-directories

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi,

"Reza Alizadeh Majd" <r.majd@pantherx.org> skribis:

> the problem is that some of these skeletons are located in sub-directories, for 
> example `~/.local/share/foo/bar.cfg`. and when I run `guix system reconfigure`
> I receive errors about missing parent directory (`~/.local/share/foo` in this example).
>
> is there any way to create parent directories before copying the skeleton files? 

I think you can do something like:

  (define dot-config
    (compute-file "dot-config-skeleton"
                  #~(begin
                      (mkdir #$output)
                      (mkdir (string-append #$output "/guix"))
                      …)))

and then add it in the list of skeletons like so:

  `(…
    (".config" ,dot-config))

Does that make sense?

Ludo’.