Re: Mysteries of channel configuration during system reconfigure

2023-03-11 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 11 mars 2023 01:16:21 GMT+01:00, Kyle Andrews a écrit : > >Julien Lepiller writes: > >> Does your /etc/channels.scm list the extra channels? > >At this point it does not. I "restored" a backup from my old computer >into my home directory. Now I have several more channels than I had

Re: Mysteries of channel configuration during system reconfigure

2023-03-10 Thread Kyle Andrews
Julien Lepiller writes: > guix system describe lists channels used to build your system, but > they can be different from the ones currently known to guix. That seems consistent with what I have observed. > Does your /etc/channels.scm list the extra channels? At this point it does not. I

Re: Mysteries of channel configuration during system reconfigure

2023-03-10 Thread Julien Lepiller
guix system describe lists channels used to build your system, but they can be different from the ones currently known to guix. Does your /etc/channels.scm list the extra channels? "guix describe" will be more accurate about what channels your current guix knows about. If you type "type guix"

Re: Mysteries of channel configuration during system reconfigure

2023-03-09 Thread Kyle Andrews
SeerLite writes: > `sudo guix system reconfigure` and any `guix package` command will (by > default) use the generation shown in `guix describe`. On first boot, > this generation _will_ be different from the one you had in the live > system. This is because the generation is saved at >

Re: Mysteries of channel configuration during system reconfigure

2023-03-09 Thread SeerLite
Hi! On 2023-03-09 03:50, Kyle Andrews wrote: One of the selling points in Guix marketing for me is that the system configuration should be self contained within /etc/config.scm and channels.scm. However, this appears to not be the case. There seems a third element hidden away which prevents me

Re: Mysteries of channel configuration during system reconfigure

2023-03-09 Thread Luis Felipe
Hi Kyle, On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 02:50, Kyle Andrews wrote: > [...] > > One of the selling points in Guix marketing for me is that the system > configuration should be self contained within /etc/config.scm and > channels.scm. However, this appears to not be the case. There seems a >

Mysteries of channel configuration during system reconfigure

2023-03-08 Thread Kyle Andrews
Dear Guix, I am trying (and failing) to setup a new computer with Guix. I managed to get through the installation process with a configuration that boots into GNOME. However, the keyboard is messed up (I made a typo) and I don't yet have the desktop environment up and running I actually feel