Re: Guix pull with root user?
On Sun, 2025-03-23 at 10:04 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2025-03-23, Rutherther wrote: > > "Thomas Ieong" writes: > > > I have a guix system setup and I was wondering if it was > > > necessary to guix > > > pull from times to times with the root user. > > > > > > My understanding was that guix pull with your regular user was > > > enough with > > > sudo guix system reconfigure > > > > Yes, exactly. sudo will use the guix from your user's path, so > > root's > > guix is not used for this. > > I have noticed that "sudo guix system reconfigure ..." does work, but > it > needlessly populates /root/.cache/guix with duplicate cruft which > over > time gets to be sizeable. Using "sudo -E guix system reconfigure ..." > does not seem to have this side-effect. Similarly, "sudo -E guix pull" instead of "sudo -i guix pull" should allow to reuse the guix checkout in the user's directory. Or would I risk ending up with root-owned files in the home directory? I wanted to test that with PureOS as the foreign distribution but some configuration is apparently required there. $ sudo du -sh /root/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj 7apsnalwq/ 1,4G /root/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj 7apsnalwq/ $ LC_ALL=C sudo -E guix pull guix pull: error: directory '/home/purism/.cache/guix' is not owned by user root hint: Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 1685:16 19 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) In guix/ui.scm: 873:16 18 (_ _) 344:43 17 (display-hint "You should run this command as purism…" . #) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 1747:15 16 (with-exception-handler # …) 3474:28 15 (_) 3327:17 14 (resolve-interface (guix build syscalls) #:select _ # _ …) In ice-9/threads.scm: 390:8 13 (_ _) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 3253:13 12 (_) In ice-9/threads.scm: 390:8 11 (_ _) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 3544:20 10 (_) 2836:4 9 (save-module-excursion #) 3564:26 8 (_) In unknown file: 7 (primitive-load-path "guix/build/syscalls" #) In guix/build/syscalls.scm: 2457:14 6 (_) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 1747:15 5 (with-exception-handler # …) In guix/build/syscalls.scm: 463:39 4 (_) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 1747:15 3 (with-exception-handler # …) In unknown file: 2 (dynamic-link "libutil") In system/foreign-library.scm: 190:25 1 (load-foreign-library _ #:extensions _ # _ #:search-path …) In unknown file: 0 (dlopen "libutil.so" 1) ERROR: In procedure dlopen: In procedure dlopen: file "libutil.so", message "libutil.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" Roman signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Guix usage and stability as daily driver
Hi Guix, i am using guix system as (personal) daily driver since 1.4. During the time i added services and packages. I am so glad for the declarative and rolling system. I learned lot from it and my knowledge of gnu and system administration is growing (still lot to learn). This kind of system helped me adding lot of software like podman, docker, distrobox, and so many on With lot of software a problem started to show up. System is less "stable" (pass me the expression). Sometimes i use software after 1 month to discover it's not working any more. At this point i can usually not rollback for 2 main reasons: - i don't know any more when something broke - the configure that introduced the bug resolved one other Tryed to force me to upgrade once a month to reduce the impact but this is not a good answer for the periods where i am experimenting in implementing new services or configuration. Last month introduced home config which needed lots of reconfigure to figure out what i was looking for (still not the best sysadmin) Am i missing some best practices? Should i work more with pinned software? I arrive from debian stable, putting lot of effort to change mindset. Sometimes it feels too much time consuming (again for me not beeing that good) Thanks a lot for any advice that can come from the community which i find really a good one.
Re: Idiomatic way to run Emacs 30.1?
>Wed 09 Apr 2025 at 04:22, Aleksej via wrote: > Emacs 30.1 is available on "emacs-team" branch, so, the best way is probably > to wait until > it's merged. You could also use package inferiors to add it, but I'm not sure > if that is a > good idea. As an alternative, one may set the "branch" of a given channel in the channels.scm file, considering that this might include untested changes. Best, is probably to wait until this branch merges in master. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Idiomatic way to run Emacs 30.1?
>Tue 08 Apr 2025 at 22:47, Snikta wrote: > Hi, > > I want to run the latest stable version of Emacs, but I'm not sure how to > achieve this on > Guix. Out of curiosity, I just found this guix channel, which looks interesting if you feel like living in the bleeding edge. https://github.com/gs-101/emacs-master C. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: How to add a variable with a list of services into another list of services?
Hi Fernando! I managed to fix the error thanks to Rutherther on irc. (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout) in my xorg config was the wrong part because a struct is expected in the field keyboard-layout, but I was giving it a procedure: (service startx-command-service-type (xorg-configuration (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout) (extra-config... I moved it out of my OS config where the second keyboard-layout was referring to the operating-system's keyboard-layout. Thanks! Original Message On Apr 9, 2025, 11:57, Fernando Martínez González wrote: > Hi, Oleander! Would you mind sharing what error you have? Oleander via > writes: > I've tried without success: > > (services > (append > (list ...) > > bar > (modify-services %base-services... I don't think there is anything > wrong with what you are trying (guile-user)> (let ((a (list 3 4))) (append > (list 1 2) a)) (1 2 3 4) -- Fernando
