Here's a hopefully uncontroversial patch that sets PS1 in 'guix
environment' containers to something more friendly than what bash shows
by default when PS1 is unset. OK to push?
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From: David Thompson <dthomps...@worcester.edu>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 21:20:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] environment: Set a default value for PS1.
* guix/scripts/environment.scm (launch-environment/container): Set PS1
during container initialization.
---
guix/scripts/environment.scm | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/guix/scripts/environment.scm b/guix/scripts/environment.scm
index fc75d78..6aa5ad0 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/environment.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/environment.scm
@@ -425,6 +425,9 @@ host file systems to mount inside the container."
(mkdir-p "/bin")
(symlink bash "/bin/sh")
+ ;; Set a reasonable default PS1.
+ (setenv "PS1" "[ENV] \\u@\\h \\w\\$ ")
+
;; Setup directory for temporary files.
(mkdir-p "/tmp")
(for-each (lambda (var)
--
2.7.3
--
David Thompson
