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

[Dominic Martinez <dom@dominicm.dev>]

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Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq 
<sebastien.rey-coyrehourcq@univ-rouen.fr> writes:

> The only things holding me back at the moment is two things :
>
> a) doom emacs flavour, how to manage the fact that doom use 
> straigt.el
> to maintain packages

I don't think it's possible to use Doom with Guix emacs packages, 
but you can just set up Doom as you would on another distro. I did 
this while I transitioned to a Guix config, using 
~home-files-service-type~ to deploy my Doom config files.

> b) "password / secrets" management ?
>
> There are two things, file to directly encrypt (like ssh key) 
> and
> password to hide into configuration file (templating)
>
> b.1) So, that need to encrypt/decrypt more or less "on-the-fly" 
> the
> files using gpg/yubikey or age like yadm ( 
> https://yadm.io/docs/encryption ) or chezmoi
> (https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/encryption/gpg/) do ?

I use small wrappers around GPG's built in encryption 
(https://git.sr.ht/~dominicm/dotfiles/tree/main/item/System.org#L2663) 
and decryption 
(https://git.sr.ht/~dominicm/dotfiles/tree/main/item/System.org#L2691) 
functions to manage secrets directly in my repository on the 
fly. Then I can have supported services call the script to get 
secrets without storing them in plain-text 
(https://git.sr.ht/~dominicm/dotfiles/tree/main/item/System.org#L1648).

> b.2) And for templating, like replacing ${mypassword} into some
> configuration file by getting info stored into password manager 
> like 
> "pass", i also don't know how to do that.

Org makes this really convienent. Using noweb and shell scripts I 
can decrypt and insert secrets into templated areas when I tangle 
my configuration files. That way my repo only contains encrypted 
secrets, but as long as I have my GPG keys I can build my 
configuration files locally. See 
https://git.sr.ht/~dominicm/dotfiles/tree/main/item/System.org#L5 
and 
https://git.sr.ht/~dominicm/dotfiles/tree/main/item/System.org#L1937.

> c) synchronization of my .dotfiles between two different 
> OS/System :
> Ubuntu (home) / Guix (work & home)

I keep all my configuration in a git repository, then use ~guix 
home~ to put all the files in the right places. As others have 
noted, there are many ways to identify the current system and do 
system-specific operations. I personally use an environment 
variable to keep track, and wrap guix operations with scripts that 
detect the system and use different system/home configurations 
(https://git.sr.ht/~dominicm/dotfiles/tree/main/item/System.org#L2366). Then 
all I have to do is supply the script with the system name on the 
first run, and ~home-environment-variables-service-type~ takes it 
from there.

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