From: Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz>
To: Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>, Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Merging wip-guix-home to master
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:39:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y27f1uh2.fsf@yoctocell.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735ppgg6d.fsf@trop.in>
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On Tue, Sep 28 2021, Andrew Tropin wrote:
> On 2021-09-24 15:38, Xinglu Chen wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 23 2021, Andrew Tropin wrote:
>>
>>> The core part of Guix Home project has been moved from rde
>>> repository[fn:1] to wip-guix-home branch of guix repository.
>>>
>>> I'm about a week on wip-guix-home branch completely and Guix Home works
>>> fine. There are no any major issues on rde-devel and guix-devel mailing
>>> lists and it seems that branch is ready to be merged.
>>>
>>> My guix describe looks like:
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> Generation 114 Sep 17 2021 13:33:55 (current)
>>> rde 31f8003
>>> repository URL: https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde
>>> branch: without-guix-home
>>> commit: 31f800353a781cef25fc80c05ad824a068a049c8
>>> guix a2324d8
>>> repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>>> branch: wip-guix-home
>>> commit: a2324d8b56eabf8117bca220a507cc791edffd2e
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a discussion[fn:2] on moving home services to (gnu services
>>> ...) modules, which is likely to happen, but it's possible to do the
>>> migration relatively painless by re-exporting necessary symbols in
>>> (gnu home-services ...) at first and removing them completely later.
>>>
>>> Another important part of the work related to Guix Home project is
>>> covering related modules and cli with tests, but it can be done in
>>> parallel and is not a blocker for merging.
>>
>> I noticed that the ‘guix home import’ subcommand is included, but I
>> think it needs more thought and feedback from people before it makes its
>> way into ‘master’; it also seems to lack documentation.
>>
>> I just realized that it generates the following service declaration
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (service
>> home-bash-service-type
>> (home-bash-configuration
>> (bashrc
>> (list (slurp-file-gexp
>> (local-file "/home/yoctocell/.bashrc"))))))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> but when running ‘guix home reconfigure’, the ~/.bashrc file will be
>> moved, so when running ‘guix home reconfigure’ for the second time, it
>> would read the ~/.bashrc which is itself a symlink to a file the store.
>> ‘guix home import’ clearly isn’t in a usable state as of right now…
>
> Yep, I remember that it is not documented. I think it's ok for
> generating a simple sample configuration,
I disagree, I think it’s OK for things like (guix git), which are mainly
used by developers, to not be documented in the manual. Ideally, the
all the modules would be documented. :-)
However, ‘guix home import’ will be used by developers and regular
users, and documenting the command should be a requirement.
> but I agree that it's not yet complete, if you wish I'll disable it in
> cli.
I have sent a few patches to fix it and document it[1], so it should
probably left as-is for now.
> Just an idea for the future: it's probably better to copy .bashrc to the
> current directory and do (local-file "./bashrc").
This wouldn’t work if the user doesn’t have write-access to the current
directory, nor if the current directory is $HOME. I think it’s better
for the user to specify the directory themselves.
[1]: <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50873>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-29 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-23 9:53 Merging wip-guix-home to master Andrew Tropin
2021-09-23 14:36 ` [bug#50753] " Oleg Pykhalov
2021-09-24 7:10 ` Andrew Tropin
2021-09-27 14:38 ` bug#50753: " Oleg Pykhalov
2021-09-28 7:10 ` [bug#50753] " Andrew Tropin
2021-09-28 7:45 ` zimoun
2021-09-28 9:41 ` Andrew Tropin
2021-09-28 10:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-23 15:27 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2021-09-24 7:12 ` Andrew Tropin
2021-09-23 20:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-24 7:43 ` Andrew Tropin
2021-09-24 13:38 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-09-28 10:14 ` Andrew Tropin
2021-09-29 11:39 ` Xinglu Chen [this message]
2021-09-29 14:15 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2021-09-29 15:02 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-09-30 6:11 ` Andrew Tropin
2021-09-28 12:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-28 15:23 ` Xinglu Chen
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