Hi Andrew, On Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 at 8:24 AM, Andrew Tropin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2021-11-02 11:31, [email protected] wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > Thanks for the development of Guix home. I've recently switch to it from my > > dotfiles. > > > > However, there is one thing that I do not know how to set. > > > > When using the service home-files-service-type I encountered a situation > > where I'm copying a script: > > > > (simple-service 'dotfiles > > > > home-files-service-type > > > > (list > > > > ... > > > > `("config/sway/wallpaper-change.sh" ,(local-file > > "config/sway/wallpaper-change.sh")))) > > > > However, after guix home reconfigure the file has only read flags set not > > execute. Even though the original file has execute flags. > > > > Is the home-files-service-type the correct service to use? > > > > Petr > > If there is no specific home service for your use case, which generates > > all necessary configs and executables for you the answer is probably > > yes, using home-files-service-type directly is a way to go. > > > Or do I have to patch it in order to keep the permissions? > > AFAIK, local-file, mixed-text-file create non-executable files in the > > store by design. Thanks, I've now looked more at the implementation and spend time understanding the differences between local-file, plain-file, computed-file, program-file. > > If you want to make an executable file you have at least a few options: > > 0. You can use recursive? flag to keep permissions. > > (local-file "blabla" #:recursive? #t) > Nice and simple solution. > The quote from documentation: > > > if file designates a flat file and recursive? is true, its contents > > > > are added, and its permission bits are kept. > > http://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/guix.html#index-local_002dfile > > 1. Use program-file > > http://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/guix.html#index-program_002dfile > > For example I do it for generating screenshot scripts: > > https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde/tree/master/item/rde/features/wm.scm#L188 Thanks for this example! This is what I've been looking for. > 2. Use computed-file, which will call chmod with apropriate arguments > > inside gexp. Take a look at "empty-tree" example in the manual, you can > > create a file and set apropriate permissions in the same way. > > -- This is also super useful as it allows to do what's needed to the file. > > Best regards, > > Andrew Tropin
