Re: A couple roadblocks using guix

[Omar Radwan]

1. > Hmm could you paste the actual error?
2.  
3. bash-4.3$ sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
4. guix system: error: failed to load operating system file '/etc/config.scm':
5. ERROR: Wrong number of arguments to #<procedure cons (_ _)>
6.  
7. And I'm 100 percent sure it's the dhcp-client-service declaration because when I take it out, guix system reconfigure works fine. And just in case, here's my config.scm
8. """
9. (use-modules (gnu)
10. (gnu services xorg)
11. (gnu services networking)
12. (gnu packages emacs)
13.  )
14. (operating-system
15.   (host-name "ShadyNet2")
16.   (timezone "US/Pacific")
17.   (locale "en_US.UTF-8")
18.   (bootloader (grub-configuration (device "/dev/sda")))
19.   (file-systems (cons (file-system
20.                         (device "/dev/sda1")
21.                         (title 'label)
22.                         (mount-point "/")
23.                         (type "ext4"))
24.                       %base-file-systems))
25.  (users (list (user-account
26.                 (name "omar")
27.                 (group "users")
28.                 (supplementary-groups '("wheel"
29.                                         "audio" "video"))
30.                 (home-directory "/home/omar"))))
31.   (packages (cons emacs %base-packages))
32.   (services (cons (slim-service) (dhcp-client-service)%base-services)))
33. """
34.  

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 09:43:34AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> So in general I agree it’s a good idea, and it’s easily done with
>> ‘union-build’, so if people know of useful meta-packages, please
>> send a patch.
>
> Why not an empty package with only propagated inputs?

It would be equivalent if it worked, but it doesn’t.  :-)
Currently a package has to produce something.

Ludo’.