GNU bug report logs - #39214
Updates to etc/guix-install.sh

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From: Prafulla Giri <pratheblackdiamond <at> gmail.com>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: Updates to etc/guix-install.sh
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:56:34 +0545

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Esteemed Maintainer,

Attached are two patches as a follow-up to
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=39049 that was just recently
applied to the main source tree.

Patch 1 exports the INFOPATH and makes the up-to-date guix info manual
available to the user via both /usr/bin/info and $GUIX_PROFILE/bin/info
(previously `info guix` would either show the out-of-date info file
installed during installation or throw a "No menu item 'guix' in node
'(dir)Top" error if the $GUIX_PROFILE/bin/info was invoked, or if the info
pages weren't installed during installation).

Patch 2 adds a defensive test against (highly unlikely) cases where
/etc/profile.d might not exist, and creates it. The function does not quit
on failure because it is possible that /etc/profile is still configured to
read /etc/profile.d/*.sh files. Even if it is not, guix.sh will merely sit
in /etc/profile.d and cause no changes to the user's environment.

These changes caused no regressions in my local machine.

I hope this helps more foreign distro users in their journey with Guix.

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[0002-guix-install.sh-Create-etc-profile.d-if-it-does-not-.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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