bug#19315: per-user profile directory not created/mentioned

bug#19315: per-user profile directory not created/mentioned

[rekado]

Hi guix,

the manual does not mention that a per-user profile directory owned by
the user account has to be created after installation of guix.

On a fresh installation of the package manager the missing profile
directory is mentioned only after attempting to run a guix command.

Cheers,
rekado

bug#19315: per-user profile directory not created/mentioned

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

rekado <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> the manual does not mention that a per-user profile directory owned by
> the user account has to be created after installation of guix.

It actually does, under “Invoking guix package” (see
<http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html#Invoking-guix-package>):

     In a multi-user setup, user profiles must be stored in a place
  registered as a "garbage-collector root", which ‘$HOME/.guix-profile’
  points to (*note Invoking guix gc::).  That directory is normally
  ‘LOCALSTATEDIR/profiles/per-user/USER’, where LOCALSTATEDIR is the value
  passed to ‘configure’ as ‘--localstatedir’, and USER is the user name.
  It must be created by ‘root’, with USER as the owner.  When it does not
  exist, or is not owned by USER, ‘guix package’ emits an error about it.

Would you suggest making it more prominent somehow?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

bug#19315: per-user profile directory not created/mentioned

[Ludovic Courtès]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> rekado <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> the manual does not mention that a per-user profile directory owned by
>> the user account has to be created after installation of guix.
>
> It actually does, under “Invoking guix package” (see
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html#Invoking-guix-package>):
>
>      In a multi-user setup, user profiles must be stored in a place
>   registered as a "garbage-collector root", which ‘$HOME/.guix-profile’
>   points to (*note Invoking guix gc::).  That directory is normally
>   ‘LOCALSTATEDIR/profiles/per-user/USER’, where LOCALSTATEDIR is the value
>   passed to ‘configure’ as ‘--localstatedir’, and USER is the user name.
>   It must be created by ‘root’, with USER as the owner.  When it does not
>   exist, or is not owned by USER, ‘guix package’ emits an error about it.
>
> Would you suggest making it more prominent somehow?

Commit 15ddeff merges code from nix-daemon.  Among other things, it adds
code to create this ‘profiles/per-user’ directory with appropriate
permissions (see LocalStore::LocalStore(bool reserveSpace) in
local-store.cc.)

Commit 4379c35 updates the manual accordingly.

Thanks,
Ludo’.