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per-user profile directory not created/mentioned

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19315: closed (per-user profile directory not created/mentioned)
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:44:01 +0000

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From: rekado <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: per-user profile directory not created/mentioned
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 22:31:14 +0100

Hi guix,

the manual does not mention that a per-user profile directory owned by
the user account has to be created after installation of guix.

On a fresh installation of the package manager the missing profile
directory is mentioned only after attempting to run a guix command.

Cheers,
rekado

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: rekado <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 19315-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19315: per-user profile directory not created/mentioned
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 23:43:46 +0100

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> rekado <rekado <at> elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> the manual does not mention that a per-user profile directory owned by
>> the user account has to be created after installation of guix.
>
> It actually does, under “Invoking guix package” (see
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html#Invoking-guix-package>):
>
>      In a multi-user setup, user profiles must be stored in a place
>   registered as a "garbage-collector root", which ‘$HOME/.guix-profile’
>   points to (*note Invoking guix gc::).  That directory is normally
>   ‘LOCALSTATEDIR/profiles/per-user/USER’, where LOCALSTATEDIR is the value
>   passed to ‘configure’ as ‘--localstatedir’, and USER is the user name.
>   It must be created by ‘root’, with USER as the owner.  When it does not
>   exist, or is not owned by USER, ‘guix package’ emits an error about it.
>
> Would you suggest making it more prominent somehow?

Commit 15ddeff merges code from nix-daemon.  Among other things, it adds
code to create this ‘profiles/per-user’ directory with appropriate
permissions (see LocalStore::LocalStore(bool reserveSpace) in
local-store.cc.)

Commit 4379c35 updates the manual accordingly.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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