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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Reza Alizadeh Majd <r.majd@pantherx.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modify Channels for all users
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2019 16:04:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnnxe70e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e8fdcd04-4462-457a-b4af-5b3536d0125a@www.fastmail.com> (Reza Alizadeh Majd's message of "Mon, 27 May 2019 09:58:29 +0430")

Hi,

"Reza Alizadeh Majd" <r.majd@pantherx.org> skribis:

> I just aware about that copying the skeleton files is a one time operation, we can't modify 
> skeleton files later with a new system configuration file for existing users. do we have any 
> solution to copy skeleton files to existing users home directories   on each execution of 
> guix system reconfigure ?

If you modify these files at each reconfigure, they’re no longer
skeletons.  :-)  I would advise against it.

Now, you could very much add an “activation snippet” that forcefully
copies files to the user home directories at each boot.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-06-01 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-22  8:55 Modify Channels for all users Reza Alizadeh Majd
2019-05-24 20:26 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2019-05-25 11:02   ` Reza Alizadeh Majd
2019-05-26 19:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-27  5:28   ` Reza Alizadeh Majd
2019-06-01 14:04     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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