On 2024-04-24 16:54:19 +0200, Emmanuel Medernach wrote:
> Hello Guix !
>
> How do you share profiles among machines ? For instance 2 users wants to
> have the same profile, user A shares the directory /gnu/store/...-profile to
> user B, user B either get access to it directly or from a remote machine
> with a  "guix copy <profile>", user B could now use this profile like this:
>
>  export GUIX_PROFILE="/gnu/store/...-profile"
>  source "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
>
> But there is a problem: this profile is not listed with
>
>  guix package --list-profiles
>  guix gc --list-roots
>
> The problem is that if user A deletes this profile it gets garbage collected
> even if user B still needs to use it.
>
> So the question is: How user B could add an existing /gnu/store/...-profile
> (either existing directory or obtained from a guix copy) to the profile and
> root list ?

I think you can just create a symlinks in the /var/guix/profiles/per-user/B for
the profile and in the /var/guix/gcroots/profiles/per-user/B for the gc roots.

I *think* this should work?

Tomas

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