Re: Archive authentication & ‘guix challenge’

[myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>]

On 02/14/2017 at 17:43 Maxim Cournoyer writes:

> Hi George and Ludovic,
>
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> [...]
>>
>> ‘guix pull’ preserves your (guix config) module.  So if the ‘guix’ you
>> run was configured to use /etc, it’ll keep using that; if it was
>> configured to use /usr/local/etc, it’ll keep using that.

Could you please clarify? Does it do this when invoked by 'guix pull' or
by './pre-inst-env guix pull', or in both cases?

>> If you run “./pre-inst-env guix pull”, then you end up using (guix
>> config) from your build tree, which is configured to use /usr/local/etc
>> by default.  That’s probably what happened, no?

I don't use './pre-inst-env' so I don't think so. But maybe I did on the
system from which I did 'system init' to create this one. Would that
explain it?

[...]

> George, as an alternative, you might be interested in declaring the extra
> key in your system's config.scm file [0].

Great point, thank you Maxim.