Re: symbolic links for --profile argument

[Julien Lepiller]

Hi,

The first and third commands are equivalent. I believe the second command will 
replace .guix-profile with a symlink to .guix-profile-1 which will link to the 
store. The last command should fail, because you can't create a store item that 
way.

I think guix environment --profile will create a profile and symlink directly 
to the store, without creating generations. Guix package and its aliases 
(update, remove, install) as well as guix pull create a generation, so their 
--profile option has the same behavior.

HTH!

Le 30 mars 2021 03:49:04 GMT-04:00, Fulbert <fulbert@bluewin.ch> a écrit :
>Hello and thanks for visiting my question !
>
>It is a stupid one, but just to be sure :
>
>Given
>
>~~~{.bash}
>$ readlink ~/.guix-profile
>/var/guix/profiles/per-user/fulbert/guix-profile
>
>$ readlink -f ~/.guix-profile
>/gnu/store/2sj11f64c9cgw40gkjy024vjl688zp7k-profile
>~~~{end}
>
>Will the following commands produce exactly the same result ?
>
>~~~{.bash}
>$ guix package -m ~/default.scm
>$ guix package -m ~/default.scm -p ~/.guix-profile
>$ guix package -m ~/default.scm -p
>/var/guix/profiles/per-user/fulbert/guix-profile
>$ guix package -m ~/default.scm -p
>/gnu/store/2sj11f64c9cgw40gkjy024vjl688zp7k-profile
>~~~{end}
>
>… and more generally, any guix command taking a `--profile` argument ?