Stefan <stefan-g...@vodafonemail.de> writes: > Hi Marius! > >> This is odd, as /etc/profile contains a workaround for this exact >> problem (notice the else clause): >> >> # Arrange so that ~/.config/guix/current comes first. >> for profile in "$HOME/.guix-profile" "$HOME/.config/guix/current" >> do >> if [ -f "$profile/etc/profile" ] >> then >> # Load the user profile's settings. >> GUIX_PROFILE="$profile" ; \ >> . "$profile/etc/profile" >> else >> # At least define this one so that basic things just work >> # when the user installs their first package. >> export PATH="$profile/bin:$PATH" >> fi >> done >> >> Can you investigate why this is ineffective on your system? > > Previously I had some packages installed, but I rolled-back to generation 0. > I found this in my scroll-back buffer: > > stefan@guix ~/development/guix$ guix package --roll-back > Folgende Ableitung wird erstellt: > /gnu/store/l0n6l104ldj7nz6kdyi7l8v5yjnc9p9g-profile.drv > building profile with 0 packages... > Von Generation „1“ zu „0“ gewechselt > > By rolling back it created a new generation 0 profile which is now lying > around with this kind of empty file: > > stefan@guix ~$ cat .guix-profile/etc/profile > # Source this file to define all the relevant environment variables in Bash > # for this profile. You may want to define the 'GUIX_PROFILE' environment > # variable to point to the "visible" name of the profile, like this: > # > # GUIX_PROFILE=/path/to/profile ; \ > # source /path/to/profile/etc/profile > # > # When GUIX_PROFILE is undefined, the various environment variables refer > # to this specific profile generation. > > So the test for the existence of this file does not fail, but it doesn't > change PATH either. This is the profile content, it has no bin/ folder to add > to PATH:
I see. We could extend the test in /etc/profile to look for a /bin directory of the profile, but arguably rolling back to generation 0 is not a very common case. So I'm in favor of just keeping the status quo. WDYT?
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