Subject: The home-environment example on Guix manual has an error
From: Luis Henrique Gomes Higino <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 09:50:34 -0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

the example present in the 11.1 section of the guix manual ((guix)
Declaring the Home Environment) uses a list of strings in the
bash-profile field of home-bash-configuration, which is incorrect, 
as it
expects a list of file-like objects.

The example is as follows:

  (use-modules (gnu home)
               (gnu home services)
               (gnu home services shells)
               (gnu services)
               (gnu packages admin)
               (guix gexp))

  (home-environment
   (packages (list htop))
   (services
    (list
     (service home-bash-service-type
              (home-bash-configuration
               (guix-defaults? #t)
               (bash-profile '("\
  export HISTFILE=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/.bash_history"))))
  
     (simple-service 'test-config
                     home-files-service-type
                     (list `("config/test.conf"
                             ,(plain-file "tmp-file.txt"
                                          "the content of 
                                          ~/.config/test.conf")))))))

Running "guix home build" with a file containing this returns this 
error:

  building 
  /gnu/store/cvmpzmvb0p73dvbf813rcmpplj6fnbk8-bash_profile.drv...
  Backtrace:
             8 (primitive-load 
             "/gnu/store/w6nikzvdk66d1b8x579ra0vz0wl?")
  In ice-9/ports.scm:
     463:17  7 (call-with-output-file _ _ #:binary _ #:encoding _)
  In ice-9/eval.scm:
      159:9  6 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7ffff3bb3f00>) 
      #<outp?>))
      163:9  5 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7ffff3bb3f00>) 
      #<outp?>))
      155:9  4 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7ffff3bb3f00>) 
      #<outp?>))
      159:9  3 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7ffff3bb3f00>) 
      #<outp?>))
  In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
      152:2  2 (with-fluid* _ _ _)
  In ice-9/ports.scm:
     440:11  1 (call-with-input-file "     export 
     HISTFILE=$XDG_CACHE?" ?)
  In unknown file:
             0 (open-file "     export 
             HISTFILE=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/.bash?" ?)
  
  ERROR: In procedure open-file:
  In procedure open-file: No such file or directory: "     export 
  HISTFILE=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/.bash_history"
  builder for 
  `/gnu/store/cvmpzmvb0p73dvbf813rcmpplj6fnbk8-bash_profile.drv' 
  failed with exit code 1

I believe it should be changed to something like this:

  (use-modules (gnu home)
               (gnu home services)
               (gnu home services shells)
               (gnu services)
               (gnu packages admin)
               (guix gexp))

  (home-environment
   (packages (list htop))
   (services
    (list
     (service home-bash-service-type
              (home-bash-configuration
               (guix-defaults? #t)
               (bash-profile (list (plain-file "bash-profile" "\
  export HISTFILE=$XDG_CACHE_HOME/.bash_history")))))
  
     (simple-service 'test-config
                     home-files-service-type
                     (list `("config/test.conf"
                             ,(plain-file "tmp-file.txt"
                                          "the content of 
                                          ~/.config/test.conf")))))))

This manages to build correctly.

Greetings,
Luis

-- 
Luis H. Higino