From: Fulbert <fulbert@bluewin.ch>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: symbolic links for --profile argument
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:41:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGNU0PAfpNREto4V@bluewin.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E2C69A70-91BD-46B9-82BF-FC59631DADD0@lepiller.eu>
Le Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:42:29AM -0400, Julien Lepiller a écrit :
> The first and third commands are equivalent. I believe the second command will replace .guix-profile with a symlink to .guix-profile-1 which will link to the store. The last command should fail, because you can't create a store item that way.
>
> I think guix environment --profile will create a profile and symlink directly to the store, without creating generations. Guix package and its aliases (update, remove, install) as well as guix pull create a generation, so their --profile option has the same behavior.
>
> HTH!
Hello Julien,
Indeed, it does ! Thanks much for your help.
Best regards,
>
> Le 30 mars 2021 03:49:04 GMT-04:00, Fulbert <fulbert@bluewin.ch> a écrit :
> >Given
> >
> >~~~{.bash}
> >$ readlink ~/.guix-profile
> >/var/guix/profiles/per-user/fulbert/guix-profile
> >
> >$ readlink -f ~/.guix-profile
> >/gnu/store/2sj11f64c9cgw40gkjy024vjl688zp7k-profile
> >~~~{end}
> >
> >Will the following commands produce exactly the same result ?
> >
> >~~~{.bash}
> >$ guix package -m ~/default.scm
> >$ guix package -m ~/default.scm -p ~/.guix-profile
> >$ guix package -m ~/default.scm -p
> >/var/guix/profiles/per-user/fulbert/guix-profile
> >$ guix package -m ~/default.scm -p
> >/gnu/store/2sj11f64c9cgw40gkjy024vjl688zp7k-profile
> >~~~{end}
> >
> >… and more generally, any guix command taking a `--profile` argument ?
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2021-03-30 7:49 symbolic links for --profile argument Fulbert
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