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guix-package: Create or diagnose missing profile directory.

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Reported by Andreas Enge.

* guix-package.in (%profile-directory): Honor $NIX_STATE_DIR.
  (guix-package)[ensure-default-profile]: Use it.
  [process-actions]: Call it when the `profile' option is
  %CURRENT-PROFILE.
* tests/guix-package.sh: Add installation test with $HOME set, using the
  default profile.
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Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-14 23:44:58 +01:00
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@@ -444,11 +444,23 @@ previous generations of the profile remain available, should the user
want to roll back.
For each user, a symlink to the user's default profile is automatically
created in @file{$HOME/.guix-profile}. This symlink always point to the
created in @file{$HOME/.guix-profile}. This symlink always points to the
current generation of the user's default profile. Thus, users can add
@file{$HOME/.guix-profile/bin} to their @code{PATH} environment
variable, and so on.
In a multi-user setup, user profiles must be stored in a place
registered as a @dfn{garbage-collector root}, which
@file{$HOME/.guix-profile} points to (@pxref{Invoking guix-gc}). That
directory is normally
@code{@var{localstatedir}/profiles/per-user/@var{user}}, where
@var{localstatedir} is the value passed to @code{configure} as
@code{--localstatedir}, and @var{user} is the user name. It must be
created by @code{root}, with @var{user} as the owner. When it does not
exist, @command{guix-package} emits an error about it.
The @var{options} can be among the following:
@table @code
@item --install=@var{package}