From: Sergey Trofimov <sarg@sarg.org.ru>
To: Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>
Cc: 62274@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#62274] [PATCH] home: 'home-environment-with-provenance' uses the HE location info.
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:18:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0thexcn.fsf@sarg.org.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qliz0k8.fsf@trop.in>
Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in> writes:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> On 2023-03-21 13:22, Sergey Trofimov wrote:
>>
>> The only concern is that I'd rather include
>> `guix-home-service-type` only in the first generation of the
>> system. I think that this tie between user envs and the
>> operating
>> system makes sense only on the first boot. Later on the users
>> should be responsible (and able to) to maintain their
>> environments
>> independently.
>
> There are a few issues I've not addressed yet:
>
> 1. User can login before activation finished. (Discussed in the
> mentioned thread above).
Yeah, I've just tried to bake a disk-image and also was able to
log in faster than the activation service finishes. Not a big deal
though, I can live with that.
>
> 2. Do we need to activate it on every system reconfigure?
> (Actually, I
> used it mostly for creating rde live cd and vm images, so didn't
> test
> much with system reconfigure or guix deploy. Also, I guess it
> would be
> cool to add a one-shot? flag to the service for skeleton like
> functionality/initial provisioning).
>
I think this activation should run only once.
>
> 3. Probably something else I already forgot.
It seems that ~/.config/guix/current is not created and
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/<user> as well.
>
> I still don't have enough spare time to clean it up, test and
> upstream,
> but if you would like to finish this thing up, I would be very
> happy to
> help!
Actually, my use case is already solved by your code and I can
build backup images of my OS.
Now I just have to figure out how to restore from backups offline.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-21 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-19 15:45 [bug#62274] [PATCH] home: 'home-environment-with-provenance' uses the HE location info Sergey Trofimov
2023-03-20 6:52 ` bug#62274: " Andrew Tropin
2023-03-20 17:33 ` [bug#62274] " Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-20 19:03 ` Sergey Trofimov
2023-03-21 9:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-21 10:56 ` Andrew Tropin
2023-03-21 12:22 ` Sergey Trofimov
2023-03-21 13:38 ` Andrew Tropin
2023-03-21 18:18 ` Sergey Trofimov [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87r0thexcn.fsf@sarg.org.ru \
--to=sarg@sarg.org.ru \
--cc=62274@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=andrew@trop.in \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.