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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-01-14 23:44:58 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-01-14 23:44:58 +0100
commit0ec1af59e564c00fb48359fec84d049138589dee (patch)
tree9fa48723892f3aa8f944c7c6f7f2fc688151e3ed /doc
parent2a5ab9dceba14b14170d87d180e9422299ac713e (diff)
guix-package: Create or diagnose missing profile directory.
Reported by Andreas Enge. * guix-package.in (%profile-directory): Honor $NIX_STATE_DIR. (guix-package)[ensure-default-profile]: Use it. [process-actions]: Call it when the `profile' option is %CURRENT-PROFILE. * tests/guix-package.sh: Add installation test with $HOME set, using the default profile.
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@@ -444,11 +444,23 @@ previous generations of the profile remain available, should the user
want to roll back.
For each user, a symlink to the user's default profile is automatically
-created in @file{$HOME/.guix-profile}. This symlink always point to the
+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.
+In a multi-user setup, user profiles must be stored in a place
+registered as a @dfn{garbage-collector root}, which
+@file{$HOME/.guix-profile} points to (@pxref{Invoking guix-gc}). That
+directory is normally
+@code{@var{localstatedir}/profiles/per-user/@var{user}}, where
+@var{localstatedir} is the value passed to @code{configure} as
+@code{--localstatedir}, and @var{user} is the user name. It must be
+created by @code{root}, with @var{user} as the owner. When it does not
+exist, @command{guix-package} emits an error about it.
+
+The @var{options} can be among the following:
+
@table @code
@item --install=@var{package}