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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