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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2020-09-14 22:49:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2020-09-21 23:05:38 +0200 |
| commit | 9b65281de51bcb56714509524f5ae0731c9b96d0 (patch) | |
| tree | ffbbdf71c7e41a134a4e3bbfbce1a752ea7231be /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | a2b25890ee37c017bc77a6b923577f258fa3fba0 (diff) | |
environment: '--link-profile' uses ~/.guix-profile for environment variables.
Before this patch, we had:
$ guix environment -CP --ad-hoc coreutils
[env]$ echo $PATH
/gnu/store/…-profile/bin
[env]$ echo $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT
/gnu/store/…-profile
After this patch:
$ guix environment -CP --ad-hoc coreutils
[env]$ echo $PATH
/home/ludo/.guix-profile/bin
[env]$ echo $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT
/home/ludo/.guix-profile
* guix/scripts/environment.scm (launch-environment/container): When
LINK-PROFILE? is true, pass ~/.guix-profile as the second argument to
'launch-environment'.
* tests/guix-environment-container.sh: Adjust test accordingly.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix environment): Update accordingly.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guix.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index f7e2204b53..949551a163 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -5420,8 +5420,9 @@ device. @item --link-profile @itemx -P For containers, link the environment profile to @file{~/.guix-profile} -within the container. This is equivalent to running the command -@samp{ln -s $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT ~/.guix-profile} within the container. +within the container and set @code{GUIX_ENVIRONMENT} to that. +This is equivalent to making @file{~/.guix-profile} a symlink to the +actual profile within the container. Linking will fail and abort the environment if the directory already exists, which will certainly be the case if @command{guix environment} was invoked in the user's home directory. |