Re: zsh and fish missed in /etc/shells?

[Axel <grafov@gmail.com>]

I found tcsh in packages list and maybe missed some other shells.
Seems like we need more general solution than patch proposed by me.
Also maybe merge all shells to a new common package "gnu shells"
instead of separate packages?

2015-03-11 1:30 GMT+03:00 Axel <grafov@gmail.com>:
> Thank you for explanation, I installed these packages system wide and
> got symbolic links. I prepared the patch for gnu/system.scm but I
> unsure about the way I used to check packages availability
> (find-packages-by-name). I see only the problem when one user
> installed the package and other don't — the new shell will be added to
> the list anyway. But I not found how to check that package was
> installed system wide.
>
> And generally should we check that shells really installed or just
> unconditionally add paths to /etc/shells? I will modify patch then.
>
>
>
> 2015-03-09 11:59 GMT+03:00 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:
>> Axel <grafov@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> Could we append /etc/shells with `zsh` or `fish` paths after these
>>> shells installed in the system?
>>
>> Sure!  Would you like to submit a patch?  This is in gnu/system.scm.
>>
>>> And I think these shells should be linked to
>>> /run/current-system/profile/bin/ as `bash` does.
>>
>> To do that, all you need to do is to add them to the ‘packages’ field of
>> the ‘operating-system’ declaration:
>>
>>   (operating-system
>>     ;; ...
>>     (packages (cons* fish zsh %base-packages)))
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ludo’.
>
>
>
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> Александр Графов



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