Guix home and guix system are pretty similar as they are used to
declaratively manage configuration. But, they are not mutually
exclusive. Guix system is the only way to install and update the
Guix System (hence the name ;)).
Guix home manages your user's configuration (in /home) while guix
system manages the system's configuration (traditionally in /etc,
though less true for guix). The two are acting in a very similar
on two different things.
Also, you can use guix home on a foreign distro, or choose to not
use guix home on the Guix System.
HTH!
On May 11, 2022 4:55:23 PM GMT+02:00, "Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq"
<sebastien.rey-coyrehourcq@univ-rouen.fr> wrote:
Hi,
My other question remain about guix home / guix system relation, and
sudo, but jpoiret found my main problem, my channels.scm are not well defined /
not good ...
- I made (cons * (channel ...)) (cons* (channel ...)) etc.
- and .. the correct way is (cons * (channel ...) (channel ...))
Everything run fine now with *guix system reconfigure
/.config/guix/system.scm*
Best
Le 11/05/2022 à 16:36, Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq a écrit :
Hi, Thanks Julien, I see on the doc that *sudo* run
command as user and not as root like other distro. So, to
be sure, if i run *sudo guix something*, i don't change
user to run this command isn't it ? Actually i only work
with my account "myuser" into group
("users","wheel",etc.) using or not using *sudo* (this is
not clear when i need or not) for running *guix* command.
About the commands with /.config/guix/channels.scm (see
content here https://paste.debian.net/1240553) : a)
*guix describe* and *sudo guix describe* and *sudo -E
guix describe* return Génération 7 11 mai 2022
16:01:25 (actuelle) guix d24ad39 URL du dépôt :
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branche :
master commit :
d24ad3949127a938cad306f0524c120afe5e2e4f b) *guix system
describe* return Génération 7 10 mai 2022 12:39:34
(actuelle) nom de fichier :
/var/guix/profiles/system-7-link nom de fichier
canonique :
/gnu/store/az1ff4ll80dbrbkayc4y0jqgnc2m37mp-system
étiquette : GNU with Linux 5.17.5 chargeur de démarrage
: grub-efi périphérique racine : /dev/mapper/cryptroot
noyau :
/gnu/store/0ffifgs0ixgz0bf1pcahkfdkx9f7h720-linux-5.17.5/bzImage
canaux : nonguix: URL du dépôt :
https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix branche : master
commit : 1de0c32142c54bc73af5556d5e45c77152b31f0f
guix: URL du dépôt :
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branche :
master commit :
d775a24344d4a910f6a19072c595bdafcf104b6f fichier de
configuration :
/gnu/store/idr8ds86m69gbx217g5h3qm6m353wliz-configuration.scm
c) *guix home describe* return Génération 1 10 mai
2022 16:59:14 (actuelle) nom de fichier :
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/reyman/guix-home-1-link nom
de fichier canonique :
/gnu/store/3q599hyjkx8c5ywsdy2gqfmx2bjzgzmm-home canaux
: flat: URL du dépôt :
https://github.com/flatwhatson/guix-channel.git
branche : master commit :
094746c1e2e90f2df1e598ab1fd0abb4d75ce84d guix:
URL du dépôt : https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branche : master commit :
0f705472126f7b935e0783bcd8fec831b7a0593b fichier de
configuration :
/gnu/store/ip90ffd0bzlr7j6kw5ky2pgxpyq1x23c-configuration.scm
With jpoiret, i try to resolve the issue on chat, i also
try to run manually *guix pull -C
./config/guix/channels.scm* without success. A *command
-v guix* return */home/myuser/.config/current/bin/guix*
Best regards, SR Le 11/05/2022 à 12:47, Julien Lepiller a
écrit :
Hi Sébastien, When you run guix describe, it's
running the guix for your user, which miggt be
different from the one you run when you use sudo.
That could explain why the modules are not found. I
don't think guix home has anything to do with that. I
noticed that the first time you use sudo -E, whereas
you use only sudo on step 5. Mayée that's why it
fails? I would run sudo guix describe and sudo -E
guix describe to see how the two might be different
from your user's guix :) HTH! On May 11, 2022
11:09:19 AM GMT+02:00, "Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq"
<sebastien.rey-coyrehourcq@univ-rouen.fr> wrote:
Hi Guix people :) I'm starting guix, picking
information when needed into documentation. I'm
facing difficulties with channels.scm since i start
using "guix home", i read the doc page, but i need
some other things to understand. Here my logic to
start just after install : 1 - I modify my
//etc/guix/channels.scm/ file to add some modules :
/nonguix/ (my computer don't work well without) and
/emacs-native-dep/ from flatwhatson flat channel.
2 - I /guix -E guix system reconfigure
/etc/config.scm/, /guix pull/, and everything goes
well 3 - Like explained in the doc, I run /guix
home import ~/src/guix-config /that generate /a
//home-configuration.scm// / /4 - /Into
/home-configuration.scm///i add the package htop and
/emacs-native-comp/ 5 - In the guix home doc the
next command is /guix home reconfigure config.scm
/but this is probably a typo and i run /guix home
reconfigure ~/src/guix-config/home-configuration.scm/
6 - Everything goes well, emacs-native-dep
compile during 1 hour, problems arrive after that.
7 - I'm moving the //etc/guix/config.scm/ and
//etc/guix/channels.scm /to my home /~/.config/guix/
, /and i run /sudo guix system reconfigure
~/.config/guix/system.scm///*, that fail*/, /it seems
the module (nongnu and emacs-native-dep) are not
referenced, like the error say /"no code for module (
nongnu ..." /But when i run /guix system describe/,
the corresponding channel are well defined. / /
After that, i try many thing, like moving
channels.scm and system.scm back to /etc/guix/ but
every reconfigure command fail in link with
channel/module not recognized (emacs-native-dep or
nongnu) - /guix home reconfigure
~/src/guix-config/home-configuration.scm/ - /guix
system reconfigure ~/.config/guix/system.scm/ -
/guix system reconfigure ~/etc/guix/config.scm/
So my question is first, why that fail after
switching to guix home ? and how and where i need to
define/set correctly the /channel.scm/ file to repair
that ? For example, /guix system//describe/ and
/guix home describe/ and /guix describe/ return all
different channel referenced, how i manage that ?
I suppose there is a "workflow to use well guix
home"? but this is not actually in the doc. For
example, perhaps after creating and switching to guix
home profile, running guix system is impossible or
prohibited ? I suppose this will be added in the
future. Thanks a lot for your help.
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Sebastien Rey-C //