Dear,
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 08:45, Steffen Rytter Postas <n...@scalehost.eu> wrote:
> > Well, I am not sure to understand why you want this setup since
> > “guix-daemon” needs (really) few updates and as regular user, when
> > doing
> > “guix pull”, if there is major upgrade, then it will be announced
> > with
> > “guix pull –news”. We all like different tastes. :-)
>
> I also wanted to maintain only one copy of "guix" usable, instead of
> having one version of guix per user, which is a lot harder to maintain.
But the point of Guix is: each user manages their own version, isn't it?
>From my point of view, it does not make sense to try to maintain only
one central copy, because in any case, each user can run:
guix time-machine -C <channels.scm> -- <command>
guix time-machine --commit=<hash> -- <command>
so each user can install, remove, etc. any version of Guix (specified
by <channels.scm> and <hash>) independently of the version of "guix
time-machine".
Well, I am not sure to understand the aim of the configuration you want to.
> > So you need to have also in the correct symlinks with
> > ’lib/{guile,guix}’
> > and others.
>
> How would I set this up? This happens on a default Guix setup following
> the standard installation guide for installing on a foreign
> distribution, and then setting up the channel configuration as
> mentioned.
I do not know how you could setup your non-standard usage of Guix.
Maybe you could try as root:
sudo guix pull -p /usr
then place /usr in the correct paths (PATH, LIBRARY_PATH, etc.) for
each user. However, it will be easy for one user to by-pass your
setup and use any version of Guix they wants:
/usr/bin/guix pull -p /path/somewhere/to/user-home
then the user can correctly set up the paths so that "guix" will refer
to the one living at /path/somewhere/to/user-home/.
Well, from my understanding, you are trying to set up Guix in the
paradigm of classic package manager, not in its "philosophy".
> > I have not investigated but I guess the issue you hit comes from
> > ’lib/guix/package.cache’, correctly see by
> > /var/guix/profiles/…/bin/guix’ but not all your other symlink
> > machinery.
> >
>
> This does make sense, if that is somehow only read from a non-store
> location (I'm not sure why it would be, that seems against all the
> point of guix in the first place).
I am not sure to understand what you mean.
Do the explanations help?
All the best,
simon
