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What else could set the GUIX_PROFILE variable?
From: |
Adam McCartney |
Subject: |
What else could set the GUIX_PROFILE variable? |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Jun 2024 08:33:29 +0200 |
Hi Guix,
Does something set the GUIX_PROFILE variable to $HOME/.guix-home/profile by
deafault?
So I've been scratching my head about this today. It may be obvious to someone
else what is happening. I'm running guix ad a foreign distro on a number of
machines, others are guix system on one. Some use a profile that exists in
'~/.guix-home/profile' others rely on '.guix-extra-profiles/$(hostname)/$(hostname)'.
I can observe the following behaviour on a "foreign distro" that uses a profile
defined by the hostname of the system.
I define a small function in my bashrc that checks to see what one is active.
```
# .bashrc
function guix_activate_profile() {
# Check for a "host" profile
# Set it if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/.guix-extra-profiles/$(hostname)/$(hostname)" ]; then
export GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-extra-profiles/$(hostname)/$(hostname)"
. "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
elif [ -d "$HOME/.guix-home/profile" ]; then
echo "default to ~/.guix-home/profile"
export GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-home/profile"
. "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
fi
}
if [ -z ${GUIX_PROFILE} ]; then # none active
guix_activate_profile # try to activate host profile
fi
```
After I login and start a terminal emulator, everything appears to be
hunky dory:
```
amccartn@mc ~
echo $GUIX_PROFILE
/home/amccartn/.guix-extra-profiles/mc/mc
```
As soon as I start a tmux session, something mysteriously sets the GUIX_PROFILE
to $HOME/.guix-home/profile. And the original control loop in my bashrc doesn't run.
```
echo $GUIX_PROFILE
/home/amccartn/.guix-home/profile
amccartn@mc ~
guix package --list-profiles
/home/amccartn/.guix-extra-profiles/mc/mc
/home/amccartn/.config/guix/current
/home/amccartn/.guix-profile
```
Note that the guix home profile doesn't exist on the machine!
```
amccartn@mc ~
ls -l $HOME/.guix-home/profile
ls: cannot access '/home/amccartn/.guix-home/profile': No such file or directory
```
I realize that the problem goes away if I remove the control block. So maybe
it's just a logic error on my part. I'd still like to know what is setting the
GUIX_PROFILE to $HOME/.guix-home/profile when I launch tmux.
Thanks!
Adam
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