Thanks Znavko! You sure has some awesome blog posts there.. I guess it's not as bad as I thought but I do understand now that in fact it's more complicated then I thought.. I'm not sure what's my opinion about it yet..
On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 06:06:10AM +0000, zna...@disroot.org wrote: > Hello! While you haven't get the answer by some hackers I offer you to read > znavko's blog where links to manuals are collected: > http://live-znavko.pantheonsite.io (http://live-znavko.pantheonsite.io/) > > The limitation of saving files into '/etc/' directory does not exist, as I > know. You may put your own files there, but only configuration files will be > modified there by running `guix system reconfigure confis.scm`. > Now I have there old files dhcpd.conf and sddm.conf from my previous > generations where I had these services. And even after removing those > generation and garbage collection they remain there. So, there are no such > limitation for '/etc/'. > > Yes, Arch has awesome docs, I've been using it for configure touchpad tap for > slim configuration in Guix System's config. > Sometimes it is difficult to understand how to use strings and types in > config.scm, what is G-expression, why to use twice '(xorg-configuration > (xorg-configuration ...))' and other quirks. > > All the configurations should be passed to your system config file config.scm > that is using in `guix system reconfigure config.scm`. All the services > accept configurations only from there. I think it is not proper way to edit > those files in '/etc/' after `guix system reconfigure ..`. > > Cannot say about configs for samba, vpn, may be you'll get info reading > package definitions here > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/samba.scm > (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/samba.scm) > > znavko. > > May 10, 2019 9:50 PM, "Doron Behar" <doron.be...@gmail.com > (mailto:doron.be...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > Hello Guix community, > > I'm very excited ever since I've discovered Guix. I have been using Arch > Linux user for years and everything I've found annoying with Arch Linux > (especially as a maintainer of a few AUR packages), finally has an > elegant and robust solution. > > I haven't done the transition yet. There are still around 100 packages I > use on my Arch installation which are not available on Guix and I guess > I'll need to contribute their Guile definitions my self. > > My main question though, regards general system configuration. I have a > Guix 1.0.0 image burned on a USB which I boot to every once in a while > to prepare my self for the transition. I must say that while I've > inspected the filesystem of the installation media, I was astounded by > the genius design of it! I can see how it all works (notably the > symlinks) and I can see how it wonderfully enables the reproducibility > and rollback features of Guix. > > Anyway, to come to the bottom of it, I've searched the documentation and > couldn't find an answer regarding what-so-ever configurations in `/etc/`. > > Pretty much everything that makes Arch Linux impressive, is it's > documentation on the aspect of everything that is needed to be put in > every file in `/etc/` so the system can be tweaked exactly the way one > wishes. > > I noticed that in Guix, all the files in /etc/ are read only. I > understand why - `guix system` is responsible for reading a Scheme file > that will create an etc store that will be used for the configuration of > the whole system and I'm not supposed to touch anything in /etc/ > manually.. But, I couldn't find how to generally do stuff there. > > I have dozens of very personal configurations I've done in my current > Arch system's /etc/ which I have no clue how to port them all and make > sure all of them are picked in the transition. Here are just a few > examples: > > - tinc (VPN software): This one expects to find cryptographic key files > to in `/etc/tinc/`. > - samba: Where do I define my shares? > - pam: gnome keyring daemon autostart on login (Arch documents how to > achieve this without a login manager, see > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Keyring#PAM_method > (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Keyring#PAM_method)). > - vconsole.conf: just another example for a file I've put some stuff in. > > I noticed that there is a section in the manual called: Services (#8.8) > and it shows the built-in support of Guix to many common services such > as printing for example. Printing is a good example where I don't > understand how it's supposed to actually work at the end. When one adds > a printer using the Web UI in http://localhost:631 (http://localhost:631) , > files in > `/etc/cups/` are modified and this is not tracked by `/etc/config.scm` I > suppose.. Most importantly, one cannot predict the contents of these > files after a printer is added. Not to mention that `/etc/` is all > readonly! > > And there is so much more.. Additionally, some files in my current > /etc/, have passwords written in them and I wonder whether it's > considered safe to put these strings right away in `/etc/config.scm`.. > > Anyway, I hope this email is not too long and I could get some pointers > to places I missed in the documentation.. > > Thanks, Doron.
