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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-05-06 17:08:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-05-06 18:26:54 +0200 |
| commit | d664f1b431d2a64ff58ddc4ccce40e187947b960 (patch) | |
| tree | 81dbd7402d8dae149a4899b2734837cfee2eefd3 /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | 611adb1ee5814907694abc9afa1bad984f0cbea0 (diff) | |
profiles: Generate an 'etc/profile' file.
Suggested by 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com>
in <http://bugs.gnu.org/20255>.
* guix/build/profiles.scm (abstract-profile,
write-environment-variable-definition): New procedures.
(build-profile): Add #:search-paths parameter. Create
OUTPUT/etc/profile.
* guix/profiles.scm (profile-derivation)[builder]: Add 'search-paths'
variable and pass it to 'build-profile'. Adjust #:modules argument.
* tests/profiles.scm ("etc/profile"): New test.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Mention etc/profile.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guix.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 8241cb07bf..1b1690a8e3 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -950,6 +950,16 @@ created in @file{$HOME/.guix-profile}. This symlink always points to the current generation of the user's default profile. Thus, users can add @file{$HOME/.guix-profile/bin} to their @code{PATH} environment variable, and so on. +@cindex search paths +If you are not using the Guix System Distribution, consider adding the +following lines to your @file{~/.bash_profile} (@pxref{Bash Startup +Files,,, bash, The GNU Bash Reference Manual}) so that newly-spawned +shells get all the right environment variable definitions: + +@example +GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-profile" \ +source "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile" +@end example In a multi-user setup, user profiles are stored in a place registered as a @dfn{garbage-collector root}, which @file{$HOME/.guix-profile} points |