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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | guix/scripts/home.scm | 10 |
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 158261e373..59ceb4477a 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -35933,9 +35933,8 @@ The @command{guix home import} command reads some of the ``dot files'' such as @file{~/.bashrc} found in your home directory and copies them to the given directory, @file{~/src/guix-config} in this case; it also reads the contents of your profile, @file{~/.guix-profile}, and, based -on that, it outputs a Home configuration that resembles your current -configuration. You can dump that configuration to a file and you're -ready to go! +on that, it populates @file{~/src/guix-config/home-configuration.scm} +with a Home configuration that resembles your current configuration. A simple setup can include Bash and a custom text configuration, like in the example below. Don't be afraid to declare home environment parts, @@ -36667,33 +36666,14 @@ $ guix home list-generations 10d @item import Generate a @dfn{home environment} from the packages in the default profile and configuration files found in the user's home directory. The -configuration files will be copied to the specified directory. Note -that not every home service that exists is supported (@pxref{Home -Services}). +configuration files will be copied to the specified directory, and a +@file{home-configuration.scm} will be populated with the home +environment. Note that not every home service that exists is supported +(@pxref{Home Services}). @example $ guix home import ~/guix-config -;; This "home-environment" file can be passed to 'guix home reconfigure' -;; to reproduce the content of your profile. This is "symbolic": it only -;; specifies package names. To reproduce the exact same profile, you also -;; need to capture the channels being used, as returned by "guix describe". -;; See the "Replicating Guix" section in the manual. - -(use-modules - (gnu home) - (gnu packages) - (gnu home services shells)) - -(home-environment - (packages - (map specification->package - (list "glibc-locales" "nss-certs" "nss"))) - (services - (list (service - home-bash-service-type - (home-bash-configuration - (bashrc - (list (local-file "/home/charlie/guix-config/.bashrc")))))))) +guix home: '/home/alice/guix-config' populated with all the Home configuration files @end example @end table diff --git a/guix/scripts/home.scm b/guix/scripts/home.scm index 3f48b98ed4..afc7d8b39c 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/home.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/home.scm @@ -274,7 +274,15 @@ argument list and OPTS is the option alist." (_ (leave (G_ "wrong number of arguments~%")))))) (unless (file-exists? destination) (mkdir-p destination)) - (import-manifest manifest destination (current-output-port)))) + (call-with-output-file + (string-append destination "/home-configuration.scm") + (cut import-manifest manifest destination <>)) + (info (G_ "'~a' populated with all the Home configuration files~%") + destination) + (display-hint (format #f (G_ "\ +Run @command{guix home reconfigure ~a/home-configuration.scm} to effectively +deploy the home environment described by these files.\n") + destination)))) ((describe) (match (generation-number %guix-home) (0 |