Fwd: bug#31907: Acknowledgement (New users get wrong/old profile path to guix after reconfiguring )

Fwd: bug#31907: Acknowledgement (New users get wrong/old profile path to guix after reconfiguring )

[swedebugia]

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Hi

I just reported this bug. 

As a reaction to the recent guix pull update and the people who had a bad experience I have an idea.

We create a new guix command that
1) analyze the current users paths and tell them if
1.1) they are good and warns them if they are not and propose a solution in a user-friendly way.  
2) gives them the possibility to scan and inherit a newer guix from another user without having to run guix pull, build a derivation etc. 
3) (perhaps) educates the users about what happens when they run pull, reconfures, etc. as different users. 
4) (perhaps) helps them to abuse the symlinks so that e.g. roots profile follow the current user's or vice versa. 

This would enable new users to do a sanity check on guix when they don't yet understand the way guix symlinks, store, pulling, etc. works.

This would also save time and bandwidth because you really don't want to run guix pull multiple times as different users considering the time it takes to compile. 

What do you think? 


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Re: Fwd: bug#31907: Acknowledgement (New users get wrong/old profile path to guix after reconfiguring )

[Nils Gillmann]

swedebugia transcribed 5.0K bytes:
> Hi
> 
> I just reported this bug. 
> 
> As a reaction to the recent guix pull update and the people who had a bad experience I have an idea.
> 
> We create a new guix command that
> 1) analyze the current users paths and tell them if
> 1.1) they are good and warns them if they are not and propose a solution in a user-friendly way.  
> 2) gives them the possibility to scan and inherit a newer guix from another user without having to run guix pull, build a derivation etc. 

Wouldn't the two points below be something for a man page? At least they would include a manpage and
a local mail telling you to read more on it if I'd do it.

> 3) (perhaps) educates the users about what happens when they run pull, reconfures, etc. as different users. 
> 4) (perhaps) helps them to abuse the symlinks so that e.g. roots profile follow the current user's or vice versa. 
> 
> This would enable new users to do a sanity check on guix when they don't yet understand the way guix symlinks, store, pulling, etc. works.
> 
> This would also save time and bandwidth because you really don't want to run guix pull multiple times as different users considering the time it takes to compile. 
> 
> What do you think? 

Some are a bit vague but in general those are good ideass.

> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: help-debbugs@gnu.org
> Sent: June 20, 2018 5:20:02 AM GMT+02:00
> To: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
> Subject: bug#31907: Acknowledgement (New users get wrong/old profile path to guix after reconfiguring )
> 
> Thank you for filing a new bug report with debbugs.gnu.org.
> 
> This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your message
> has been received.
> 
> Your message is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other
> interested parties for their attention; they will reply in due course.
> 
> Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s):
>  bug-guix@gnu.org
> 
> If you wish to submit further information on this problem, please
> send it to 31907@debbugs.gnu.org.
> 
> Please do not send mail to help-debbugs@gnu.org unless you wish
> to report a problem with the Bug-tracking system.
> 
> -- 
> 31907: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=31907
> GNU Bug Tracking System
> Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems
> 
> -- 
> Cheers Swedebugia