On +2019-08-06 02:54:03 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi Bengt, > > I'm sorry that I didn't have time to fully read your messages, but if I > understand correctly from my quick skimming, the 'date' command from > Guix is failing to access the zoneinfo. I think I see your problem. > > Bengt Richter <b...@bokr.com> writes: > > $ strace -y date|& egrep 'America|^write'|sed -e 's:,:,\n :g' > > openat(AT_FDCWD, > > > > "/gnu/store/h90vnqw0nwd0hhm1l5dgxsdrigddfmq4-glibc-2.28/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles", > > O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > > The file name above suggests that your TZDIR variable is not set > correctly to allow Guix-built binaries to find the zoneinfo files. > > On Guix systems, /etc/environment includes an entry that sets TZDIR to > the equivalent of "$(guix build tzdata)/share/zoneinfo". > > When using Guix on top of another distro, an alternative choice might be > to set TZDIR to "/usr/share/zoneinfo". I'm not sure which setting is > preferable on non-Guix systems. > > Can you try setting TZDIR and see if that solves the problem for you? > > Regards, > Mark
Thanks, that works using either /usr/... or /gnu/... but I am thinking everything guix should be accessed via some profile if it's configurable? There is already a suggestion to source like this: GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-profile" . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile" I think it would be nice if that were the only ~/.bash_profile mod a foreign-system user would have to make to tie into the guix packages such user installs with guix install. So what about having that GUIX_PROFILE profile -- at its end -- source ~/.guixrc if it exists, and then when some installation wants to suggest some environment settings, just automatically append commented-out code to ~/.guixrc. Then the friendly hints at then end of an install could suggest: ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ "Consider uncommenting some of the new │ │ lines we just added at the end of ~/.guixrc" │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ (sorry if utf8 box-drawing characters are a nono here -- are they? ;-/ ) I had noticed the TZDIR name looking with "guix edit tzdata", and was trying to figure out why installing had not hinted that I might need to do what you suggest above :) Thanks again. Regards, Bengt Richter