Re: Trouble installing bind using home-configuration.scm/config.scm

2024-10-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Lee, This is not an answer to your question, which Andreas already nailed. It's more common that people install BIND as a package (not service) because they want the CLI tools, most notably ‘dig’, instead of the BIND daemon itself. These tools are installed into a separate bind:utils package

Re: Trouble installing bind using home-configuration.scm/config.scm

2024-10-25 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 12:46:05PM +0100 schrieb Lee Thompson: > > (home-environment > > (packages (list … > > bind > > …))) > > (services …) you need to distinguish the name of a package, as given as a string in its name field and used on the comman

Trouble installing bind using home-configuration.scm/config.scm

2024-10-25 Thread Lee Thompson
I'm having trouble installing the `bind' package declaratively. Running `guix show bind' returns the bind package, but when I add `(gnu packages dns)' to my home-configuration.scm and the bind package to `packages' like so I run into an exception during reconfiguration: > (use-modules (gnu home) >