bug#17939: Passing '-p ~/.guix-profile' to 'guix package'

bug#17939: Passing '-p ~/.guix-profile' to 'guix package'

[Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer]

When I run 'guix package -p ~/.guix-profile ...' I would expect it to
do the same thing as without the '-p ~/.guix-profile', but it doesn't
follow the immediate symlink, changing ~/.guix-profile to point to
e.g. ~/.guix-profile-1-link, and creating that one as a link to
/gnu/store/...-profile.  (Normally it only does that to
$localstatedir/guix/profiles/per-user/$user/guix-profile.)

Perhaps my expectation is wrong because Guix doesn't "know" about the
"trick" of having a ~/.guix-profile symlink to the canonical per-user
profile symlink in $localstatedir/...

As a general solution, Guix could follow all but the last two(?)
symlinks in the symlink chain started by the -p argument.  Don't know
if that's a good solution.

Thoughts?

Taylan

bug#17939: Passing '-p ~/.guix-profile' to 'guix package'

[Ludovic Courtès]

Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> skribis:

> When I run 'guix package -p ~/.guix-profile ...' I would expect it to
> do the same thing as without the '-p ~/.guix-profile', but it doesn't
> follow the immediate symlink, changing ~/.guix-profile to point to
> e.g. ~/.guix-profile-1-link, and creating that one as a link to
> /gnu/store/...-profile.  (Normally it only does that to
> $localstatedir/guix/profiles/per-user/$user/guix-profile.)

I believe commit 88371f0 solves it.  Fine with you?

Thanks for the report,
Ludo’.

bug#17939: Passing '-p ~/.guix-profile' to 'guix package'

[Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I believe commit 88371f0 solves it.  Fine with you?

I wish the problem could be solved without special-casing, but I guess
this is a good quick solution.

> Thanks for the report,
> Ludo’.

Thanks,
Taylan

bug#17939: Passing '-p ~/.guix-profile' to 'guix package'

[Ludovic Courtès]

Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> I believe commit 88371f0 solves it.  Fine with you?
>
> I wish the problem could be solved without special-casing, but I guess
> this is a good quick solution.

Yeah, but the problem is that ~/.guix-profile is already a special case
in a way.

Ludo’.