Re: Root guix dereferencing

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de>]

On 19/11/2018 16.06, Clément Lassieur wrote:
> If you check ~root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix, you'll see that it's
> updated when you run 'guix pull' as root.  If you want that guix to be
> used for your 'root' user, you just need to make sure
> ~root/.config/guix/current/bin/ is first in root's $PATH.

I could bet last time I checked, there was not "current", only "latest", 
below ~root/.config/guix, but indeed, there's a recently changed 
~root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix.


> If you are using Ubuntu, you don't need to use that command though, but
> you need your systemd's guix-daemon to point to a recent guix.  It could
> be either the one updated by root's 'guix pull', or the one updated by
> your current user's 'guix pull'.  I chose the latter because I want to
> run 'guix pull' only once.

You mean edit /etc/systemd/guix-daemin.service and change 
"/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon"?

If so, to what, as there's no guix-daemon in 
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/.

Is the whole reason to have /usr/local/bin/guix to make guix available 
for root without modifying root's PATH?


Things are a bit clearer now, thanks, Clément.

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