Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> writes: >> dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: >> >>> I'm just sending this to you since I think I might have figured out what is >>> happening, and I don't know how to respond to bugs via the mailing list. >>> Instruction on replying to bugs via the mailing list would be quite a help. >>> >>> Basically, /var/lib/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER/guix-profile doesn't >>> exist. For >>> example, on the root account on my machine (I've run guix pull multiple >>> times as >>> root, and even tried to install icecat as a normal user, plus running guix >>> pull >>> several times as a normal user) $HOME/.guix-profile points to a nonexistent >>> file/directory, and where it points to >>> (/var/lib/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile) simply doesn't >>> exist. > > The profile is created automatically the first time “guix package -i” is > run. This happens reliably for me on Fedora, CentOS, and on GuixSD. If > this doesn’t happen Gentoo I suspect the Gentoo package to be defective > (e.g. setting invalid permissions on certain directories). > >>> I've >>> even tried to track down where a profile might exist within /gnu/store, but >>> "ls /gnu/store/*profile*" responds with: > > This is not important. Anything Guix creates will be in the store. > This includes all profile generations. > > I suggest installing Guix using the official binary package. See this > page for the tarballs and the install instructions: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/ > > > ~~ Ricardo >
Without adding all of the off-ticket/list email I got: the failure is very likely caused by /gnu/store being on a separate partition. I was not able to get information if the store has been moved there post-install in addition (my ebuild certainly doesn't do that as can be seen in its file at gnunet.org/git/) My tests only include a system where most things are on / (root), taking the examples of gentoo handbook as an orientation of the general system layout of users who might happen to use my ebuilds. So I've read issues about the /gnu/store in the past, and I've seen solutions I think, but the answer to this should be something open to people who run this in practice - I don't do this and have no own experience to share. -- ♥Ⓐ ng0
