Re : Re: Guix home on foreign distribution

[Roland Everaert <r.everaert@protonmail.com>]

The documentation says otherwise. according to it, it can be a list of strings or gexps for setting environment variables.

Roland Everaert
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Le lundi 18 octobre 2021 à 18:55, Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> Roland Everaert via help-guix@gnu.org writes:
>
> > Is there anything related to file and directory permissions to be set
> >
> > on foreign distrubution for guix home to work?
> >
> > I know that feature is still pretty young and some parts are still in dev, yet
> >
> > I have tried it on my fedora 34 system and got the following error, which
> >
> > could be related to permission and file ownership:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> >
> > (home-environment
> >
> > (packages (list htop glances password-store dunst ranger restic hunspell
> >
> > ;; hunspell-dict-fr hunspell-dict-en
> >
> > ;; guile
> >
> > neofetch xdotool openssl openvpn xscreensaver))
> >
> > (services
> >
> > (list
> >
> > (service home-bash-service-type
> >
> > (home-bash-configuration
> >
> > (guix-defaults? #t)
> >
> > (bash-profile (list "export HISTFILE=$HOME/.bash_history"))))
>
> This should be a file-like object, e.g. plain-file same as in the test-config.
>
> > (simple-service 'test-config
> >
> > home-files-service-type
> >
> > (list `("config/test.conf"
> >
> > ,(plain-file "tmp-file.txt"
> >
> > "the content of ~/.config/test.conf")))))))
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---