bug#39214: closed (Updates to etc/guix-install.sh)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Updates to etc/guix-install.sh Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:56:34 +0545

Esteemed Maintainer,

Attached are two patches as a follow-up to https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=39049 that was just recently applied to the main source tree.

Patch 1 exports the INFOPATH and makes the up-to-date guix info manual available to the user via both /usr/bin/info and $GUIX_PROFILE/bin/info (previously `info guix` would either show the out-of-date info file installed during installation or throw a "No menu item 'guix' in node '(dir)Top" error if the $GUIX_PROFILE/bin/info was invoked, or if the info pages weren't installed during installation).

Patch 2 adds a defensive test against (highly unlikely) cases where /etc/profile.d might not exist, and creates it. The function does not quit on failure because it is possible that /etc/profile is still configured to read /etc/profile.d/*.sh files. Even if it is not, guix.sh will merely sit in /etc/profile.d and cause no changes to the user's environment.

These changes caused no regressions in my local machine.

I hope this helps more foreign distro users in their journey with Guix.

0001-guix-install.sh-Export-INFOPATH-to-contain-updated-g.patch
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0002-guix-install.sh-Create-etc-profile.d-if-it-does-not-.patch
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> Prafulla Giri <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > From 0f98891feb2cc3cb4c529c65d789cdfc955cfc41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Prafulla Giri <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:25:24 +0545
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] guix-install.sh: Export INFOPATH to contain updated guix
> >  info-pages
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> > * etc/guix-install.sh (sys_create_init_profile): Export INFOPATH to include
> > the updated info-pages from ~/.config/guix/current/share/info.  This also 
> > makes
> > sure that both /usr/bin/info and $GUIX_PROFILE/bin/info can read guix info 
> > pages
> > without throwing "no menu item 'guix' in node dir(Top)" error.
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> > From dcd2180c36dc0319ebc3ab821879015e30bba94e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Prafulla Giri <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:34:10 +0545
> > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] guix-install.sh: Create /etc/profile.d if it does not
> >  exist
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> > * etc/guix-install.sh (sys_create_init_profile): Add code to create
> > /etc/profile.d if it somehow does not exist; the function still carries
> > on because it is possible that /etc/profile is still configured to read
> > the *.sh files from /etc/profile.d, if they exist.
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> Applied both, thank you!
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> Ludo’.
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