guix-home-service-type does not create new home generations

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Richard Sent wrote 9 months ago

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Message-ID:87cyoip2dz.fsf@freakingpenguin.com

Hi Guix.

This is a continuation of a previous discussion [1]. I'm opening a

standalone bug to try and track it better.

At present, when guix-home-service-type is used, new home generations

are never created/registered. This causes commands that operate on

home-generations to return inaccurate or garbage information. For

instance, guix home describe -I will not report the current list of

installed packages.

Defining the interactions between guix-home-service-type and various

guix home subcommands is challenging. The proper behavior is not always

obvious [1]. Per a followup from Ludo [2], a good starting point is for

a new home generation to be created when activating a new system while

using guix-home-service-type.

Take it easy,

Richard Sent

Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

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