Package: guix Version: 0.16.0 I discussed this on irc and was recommended to ask about it on the mailing list - I decided to send it to the bug tracker because if it's decided to be a bug there's one less step.
Loosely copying irc logs: <rendaw> Hello! I'm getting "wrong number of arguments for action 'init'" when I do "guix system init -e '(my-func arg1 arg2)' /mnt" - is there something obvious I'm doing wrong? I googled around but the only result I found was logs from 2 years ago that are gone now <rendaw> Also, the docs aren't specific in this regard - will the filesystem created by "guix system init" be a bootable system? Like disk-image but on a mounted empty filesystem? The other way I could interpret the docs for that command are that "init" copies all the files required to build the system (source files, guix binaries, etc) into a directory for backup purposes <kmicu> Hi rendaw. why do you pass -e flag to system init? <rendaw> To pass arguments into the build <rendaw> (drive uuids, secrets I don't want to commit to the system config, etc) <rendaw> I suppose I image it's the same reason one would want to pass -e to system disk-image or system-vm or whatever <samplet> Near the bottom of “guix/scripts/system.scm” it has a “case” form that checks if the action is “init” and then makes sure the argument count is exactly two. <samplet> It would be pretty easy to fix, but I recommend contacting the mailing list before doing anything, in case there is a good reason for it. <kmicu> rendaw: ‘-e’ contributor didn’t handle init case, intention was ‘(guix-system): Allow commands taking a file as an argument to use an expression instead.’ but there is a check for init that doesn’t allow that currently. <kmicu> rendaw: more at 5a72ddf176d53a7f4df922985d9d7fd4cfa160f5 <rendaw> kmicu: So I guess it sounds unintentional? <samplet> rendaw: The main issue seems to be that the “process-action” procedure assumes the target to be the second argument. If there were no configuration file, it would have to be the first. <samplet> I’m not certain, but I bet with a little tweak to “process-action”, you could remove the check and everything would work fine. <rendaw> I suppose none of the other actions have a target parameter <kmicu> rendaw: yep, you are basically the first user using init with -e. Congrats xD <rendaw> :D
