"白い熊 @相撲道" <guix-devel_gnu....@sumou.com> skribis:
> I'm trying to understand the sysconfig.scm syntax to specify when clean > installing the system or running “guix system reconfigure”. > > In the manual I've seen the example with Emacs. But I don't understand why > there's: > > (use-modules (gnu) > (gnu packages emacs) > > and then in the operating-system section > > (packages (cons emacs %base-packages)) > > Let's just say I want to reconfigure the system with packages emacs, mc, > xmodmap, and xterm installed for user joe. What do I put in the > sysconfig.scm? I've tried many combinations, but can't accomplish this simple > task. The ‘packages’ field describes packages that will be in the global profile–i.e., /run/current-system/profile. These are visible from every user account. There’s currently no way to describe how to populate a specific user’s profile. It would be hard to integrate with the ‘guix package -i’ approach anyway. > Also, when installing from the USB, after booting the USB, can I “guix pull” > and then install the system? Or do I have to first install, then boot it, > then “guix pull”, meaning I couldn't maybe put all package definitions in the > install sysconfig.scm, as the packages might not be available before “guix > pull”? Both should work. On the USB image, make sure to start the ‘cow-store’ service to avoid storing everything in RAM. HTH, Ludo’.
