From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Modify Channels for all users Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2019 16:04:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87pnnxe70e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877eadnh37.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hX4cw-0000dH-SR for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Jun 2019 10:04:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Reza Alizadeh Majd's message of "Mon, 27 May 2019 09:58:29 +0430") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Reza Alizadeh Majd Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Hi, "Reza Alizadeh Majd" skribis: > I just aware about that copying the skeleton files is a one time operatio= n, we can't modify=20 > skeleton files later with a new system configuration file for existing us= ers. do we have any=20 > solution to copy skeleton files to existing users home directories on e= ach execution of=20 > guix system reconfigure ? If you modify these files at each reconfigure, they=E2=80=99re no longer skeletons. :-) I would advise against it. Now, you could very much add an =E2=80=9Cactivation snippet=E2=80=9D that f= orcefully copies files to the user home directories at each boot. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.