From: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
To: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: /gnu/store
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 13:10:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu9cmtwe.fsf@xelera.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ea0f1d7-4a90-360e-184e-63a35de6db2f@posteo.de>
Hello Gottfried,
are you using Guix System or Guix on a foreign distro?
Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> writes:
> Hi Guixers,
> After guix pull und guix update I have a new Emacs Version, Emacs 28
>
> 1. My earlier created icon for emacs, in Mate Desktop, opens the older
> Version Emacs 27.2
> How to fix it?
have you tried logging out and in?
> 2. Opening /gnu/store/ in Mate Caja (File Manager) takes ages.
AFAIK it takes ages in every file manager
you'd better use "find" (man find) from your terminal if you want to
find a package in /gnu/store, see below
> To look for a the Emacs 28.1 file takes also ages.
What is "the Emacs 28.1 file"?
> Is there a quicker way to search for some directories in /gun/store?
> May be in the terminal emulator? With which commands?
yes: use the CLI in a terminal
to have the (too long) directory listing: "ls -lah /gnu/store"
to serach for every first level only directory having "emacs" in its
name under /gnu/store: "find /gnu/store -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*emacs*'"
then you can inspect the store for each installed package,
e.g. "/gnu/store/r1zd92x4bh8zfz16rj9gh66pr950x2zr-emacs-guix-0.5.2-5.c9aef52"
with ls or Caja if you want
> I want to change the command for opening emacs in the starter,now
> version 27.2 change into emacs 28. So that the emacs icon in the toolbar
> opens Emacs 28. Or is the simplest way deleting the icon and after every
> new emacs version creating a new icon?
You cannot change the .desktop files used to start applications
installed via Guix since they are stored read-only in the store
It's "just" a matter to refresh your graphical menu an usually we need
to logout and login (at least on a foreign distro)
> If I do a "emacs -ProfileManager" it opens the emacs 28
AFAIU you are starting emacs from a terminal, and yes: it starts emacs
28 because it does not use the *.desktop file used by the graphical menu
(which have the 27.2 version hardcoded in it)
> but does not give me a possibility to set a new Profile.
AFAIK "ProfileManager" is not a valid emacs option :-)
> 3. Can somebody explain to me the structure of /gnu/store?
Please read the Guix manual at "8.9 The Store"
AFAIK the store is set read-only **but** in any case /do not/ directly
write to the store, it is accessed by the guix-daemon via the various
"guix..." command
use the guix cli (or the great emacs-guix interface [1]) to explore your
packages (et al)
[...]
> The date is allways the same,
it's a reproducibility requirement: our software is /eternal/ B-)
[...]
> thanks in advance
> I am "hacking" at the basics
> Gottfried
Happy hacking! Gio'
[1] I had to apply a workaround to make it working https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55013#2
[...]
--
Giovanni Biscuolo
Xelera IT Infrastructures
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-26 11:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-25 20:13 /gnu/store Gottfried
2022-05-26 11:10 ` Giovanni Biscuolo [this message]
2022-05-27 4:16 ` /gnu/store Thiago Jung Bauermann
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