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From: "André Batista" <nandre@riseup.net>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to have guile module available during sudo system reconfigure?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:30:15 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZsefHURzgoeI6tms@andel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ed6i27lm.fsf@wolfsden.cz>

Hi Tomas,

ter 20 ago 2024 às 23:43:33 (1724208213), ~@wolfsden.cz enviou:
> 
> Hello Guix,
> 
> I did run into an interesting (frustrating?) problem.  I created a
> package that bundles few Guile modules of my making.  I installed it
> into my home environment and wanted to use helpers from it in my system
> configuration.  However I am not sure how to do that.
> 
> When I do
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> guix system build some/config.scm
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> The system builds and everything is fine.
> 
> However when try to reconfigure the system using
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> sudo guix system reconfigure some/config.scm
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> It fails with a very descriptive error of
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ice-9/eval.scm:142:16: In procedure compile-top-call:
> error: system-add-luks: unbound variable
> hint: Did you forget `(use-modules (wolfsnet systems))'?
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 

I've never done that, but have you tried setting GUILE_LOAD_PATH?

$ sudo GUILE_LOAD_PATH="myguile/modules:$GUILE_LOAD_PATH" guix system reconfigure some/config.scm

Cheers,


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-08-22 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-20 21:43 How to have guile module available during sudo system reconfigure? Tomas Volf
2024-08-21  7:25 ` Marek Paśnikowski
2024-08-22 20:30 ` André Batista [this message]
2024-08-23  0:14 ` Ian Eure

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