Guix home on foreign distribution

[Roland Everaert via <help-guix@gnu.org>]

Hello,

Is there anything related to file and directory permissions to be set on foreign distrubution for guix home to work?

I know that feature is still pretty young and some parts are still in dev, yet I have tried it on my fedora 34 system and got the following error, which could be related to permission and file ownership:

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building /gnu/store/564yvkjmdp5bvdijk8w0cwl7ym5q6sdr-bash_profile.drv...
Backtrace:
8 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/lp5wrbb8qi9lc3hyji3dxwjzgg8?")
In ice-9/ports.scm:
463:17 7 (call-with-output-file _ _ #:binary _ #:encoding _)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
159:9 6 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7fffefbabf00>) #<outp?>))
163:9 5 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7fffefbabf00>) #<outp?>))
155:9 4 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7fffefbabf00>) #<outp?>))
159:9 3 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7fffefbabf00>) #<outp?>))
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
152:2 2 (with-fluid* _ _ _)
In ice-9/ports.scm:
440:11 1 (call-with-input-file "export HISTFILE=$HOME/.bash_his?" ?)
In unknown file:
0 (open-file "export HISTFILE=$HOME/.bash_history" "r" # # ?)

ERROR: In procedure open-file:
In procedure open-file: No such file or directory: "export HISTFILE=$HOME/.bash_history"
builder for `/gnu/store/564yvkjmdp5bvdijk8w0cwl7ym5q6sdr-bash_profile.drv' failed with exit code 1
build of /gnu/store/564yvkjmdp5bvdijk8w0cwl7ym5q6sdr-bash_profile.drv failed
View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/56/4yvkjmdp5bvdijk8w0cwl7ym5q6sdr-bash_profile.drv.bz2'.
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/ic73gayslzsj0k2snp61z5aaiwd6l5ck-files.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
applying 2 grafts for /gnu/store/g2wlw2kxszxclfq1pvxyfbs7q15xl1vf-python-future-0.18.2.drv ...
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/gam06nxwyb6kcqs3pxwh1v8p627ps0df-home.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
guix home: error: build of `/gnu/store/gam06nxwyb6kcqs3pxwh1v8p627ps0df-home.drv' failed

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The guix home configuration file I use:

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(use-modules (gnu home)
(gnu home services)
(gnu home services shells)
(gnu services)
(gnu packages admin)
(gnu packages python-xyz)
(gnu packages password-utils)
(gnu packages dunst)
(gnu packages disk)
(gnu packages backup)
(gnu packages libreoffice)
(gnu packages guile)
(gnu packages xdisorg)
(gnu packages tls)
(gnu packages vpn)
(guix gexp))

(home-environment
(packages (list htop glances password-store dunst ranger restic hunspell
;; hunspell-dict-fr hunspell-dict-en
;; guile
neofetch xdotool openssl openvpn xscreensaver))
(services
(list
(service home-bash-service-type
(home-bash-configuration
(guix-defaults? #t)
(bash-profile (list "export HISTFILE=$HOME/.bash_history"))))

(simple-service 'test-config
home-files-service-type
(list `("config/test.conf"
,(plain-file "tmp-file.txt"
"the content of ~/.config/test.conf")))))))
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Some system related information:
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[roland@singularity ~]$ guix describe
hint: Consider installing the `glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:

guix install glibc-locales
export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"

See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.

Generation 45 Oct 18 2021 13:14:31 (current)
guix 84759b7
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: 84759b7c20fa4ee7e8004f2fc0ddec694cf9aedd

[roland@singularity ~]$ neofetch --off --package_managers off --title_fqdn off --uptime off
roland@singularity
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OS: Fedora 34 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
Host: B550 GAMING X
Kernel: 5.14.9-200.fc34.x86_64
Uptime: 2 hours, 53 mins
Packages: 2438
Shell: bash 5.0.16
Resolution: 3840x2160
WM: stumpwm
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Terminal: alacritty
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT (16) @ 3.900GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
Memory: 4328MiB / 32035MiB
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Regards,

Roland Everaert
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