Table of Contents _________________ 1. The context 2. The question
1 The context ============= Newbie user here. I'm curious about how `home-bash-configuration' works, so I wanted to jump to its definition. I know that one way of doing this is cloning the Guix repository and executing grep to search that string. In fact, I did this and found it in `gnu/home/services/shells.scm'. Using common sense, I knew that that file also existed in my system, so I was wondering how I could have accomplished the same objective without having to download the Git repository, just in case some day I don't have internet connection ,---- | locate shells.scm | grep '/gnu/store' `---- ,---- | /gnu/store/0ywmx3mj3y644mas5v6c8a0h59xz6kid-guix-3809aa0/gnu/home/services/shells.scm | /gnu/store/0ywmx3mj3y644mas5v6c8a0h59xz6kid-guix-3809aa0/gnu/packages/shells.scm | /gnu/store/5kj8lyybjrdl7xd0fx9g9vzkz8sklqsy-guix-1.4.0/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/home/services/shells.scm | /gnu/store/5kj8lyybjrdl7xd0fx9g9vzkz8sklqsy-guix-1.4.0/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/shells.scm | /gnu/store/7w4ln207ylgaqbj6crb9x234kypb1in4-guix-b12ee1ee5-modules/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/shells.scm | /gnu/store/8l8z4i57xwcnjnh66773g8sgf19lrxcq-guix-packages-base-source/gnu/packages/shells.scm | /gnu/store/9nvx97hr8kkr26gzwni2fblfn0yq0xjw-guix-1.4.0rc2/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/home/services/shells.scm | /gnu/store/9nvx97hr8kkr26gzwni2fblfn0yq0xjw-guix-1.4.0rc2/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/shells.scm | /gnu/store/b6mhxbzibqv7v66frjlqg21s38pvplh5-guix-b12ee1e/gnu/home/services/shells.scm | /gnu/store/b6mhxbzibqv7v66frjlqg21s38pvplh5-guix-b12ee1e/gnu/packages/shells.scm | /gnu/store/b8kb2yrrxpqgvviryx5vd4v8b66wdx12-guix-3809aa01a-modules/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/shells.scm | /gnu/store/bn45df51vizkrqwkca3g177gq8d19spx-guix-1.4.0-3.d5fece6/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/home/services/shells.scm | /gnu/store/bn45df51vizkrqwkca3g177gq8d19spx-guix-1.4.0-3.d5fece6/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/shells.scm | /gnu/store/dgjgpx2gflf1lqr3jipr6jclkmn7qh8j-guix-1.4.0rc2/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/home/services/shells.scm | /gnu/store/dgjgpx2gflf1lqr3jipr6jclkmn7qh8j-guix-1.4.0rc2/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/shells.scm | /gnu/store/faxxz91yljsfpbjwx5l35ipnlkpa4khl-guix-1.4.0-3.d5fece6/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/home/services/shells.scm | /gnu/store/faxxz91yljsfpbjwx5l35ipnlkpa4khl-guix-1.4.0-3.d5fece6/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/shells.scm | /gnu/store/prm3kzg3rm0klf4zp6bdxpx9iwjc0dsb-guix-home-source/gnu/home/services/shells.scm | /gnu/store/xzaa4wgw8l6lmfi0zcp4m74ihkl0nwh4-guix-packages-base-source/gnu/packages/shells.scm | /home/rdrg/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/gnu/home/services/shells.scm | /home/rdrg/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/gnu/packages/shells.scm `---- I also noticed that some of the found files have the same content (see output of `sha512sum' below) ,---- | locate shadow.scm | sudo xargs sha512sum `---- ,---- | 230645de4bc3a4f3c177d0e92e432d7cb554acd0e0b30efb02330c749e4f4ae7cef172d4b20388d8b52343396b195d9ebc8838a3027f264035126d40508779c2 /gnu/store/b6mhxbzibqv7v66frjlqg21s38pvplh5-guix-b12ee1e/gnu/home/services/shells.scm | 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I'm sure not all of them are being used. I'm somewhat familiar with how generations work, but in other words, I'd like to know how to determine which of these files is the one that is being used by the current generation.
