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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-05-06 17:08:00 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-05-06 18:26:54 +0200
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tree81dbd7402d8dae149a4899b2734837cfee2eefd3 /doc/guix.texi
parent611adb1ee5814907694abc9afa1bad984f0cbea0 (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.
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@@ -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