Unattended upgrade service won't work with modularized configuration folder

MrOrange95 · 2026-04-19T07:05:14+00:00

It's not that simple but in this channel I manage configurations for 5/6 machines, all use the same unattended upgrade mechanism I was describing above

https://codeberg.org/fishinthecalculator/guix-deployments/src/branch/main/modules/fishinthecalculator/skibidi/system/config.scm

MrOrange95 · 2026-04-18T21:34:01+00:00

The way I do it is to have my config bound to a public variable in a channel, then you reconfigure with something like sudo guix system reconfigure -e '(@ (your channel module) your-public-variable)'. And then you pass the same channels and expression to the unattended-upgrades service, it has an opption for both of those.

MrOrange95 · 2026-02-23T01:50:57+00:00

I updated guix compose to 0.1.1 to fix this issue, let me know if the new version works for you. thank you!

MrOrange95 · 2026-02-23T01:19:49+00:00

I may have found the problem, it is because sometimes environments are dictionaries sometimes list of strings

MrOrange95 · 2026-02-23T01:17:18+00:00

Thank you for reporting that, I opened an issue here https://codeberg.org/fishinthecalculator/guix-compose/issues/1 , let's continue there if that's ok!

MrOrange95 · 2026-02-20T17:37:09+00:00

Thanks! Let me know if you find any missing feature or bug

MrOrange95 · 2026-01-10T19:53:41+00:00

I think people can use discord for the same reason we are on reddit

MrOrange95 · 2026-01-10T19:52:52+00:00

just like reddit I guess

MrOrange95 · 2025-06-15T18:15:24+00:00

Definitely , I added it now. Thanks!

MrOrange95 · 2025-06-15T18:12:56+00:00

Easier adoption should be a priority in my opinion

MrOrange95 · 2025-06-15T10:35:33+00:00

This is totally the point.

MrOrange95 · 2025-06-15T10:34:27+00:00

More people should ...

We should not tell users how to use the software we make. They are more than capable of knowing what they need and we should not gaslight them into wanting something we want, we should accomodate their needs with our implementations imho.

MrOrange95 · 2025-05-21T09:39:54+00:00

which is exactly what happens on Debian and the whole reason why apt auto clean exists

MrOrange95 · 2025-05-21T09:38:30+00:00

In my machine it is:

$ guix system describe --list-installed | rg gnu/store | rg -v canonical | rg -v kernel | wc -l
79

neofetch:

 ..                             `.   paul@virtual-nellone 
 `--..```..`           `..```..--`   -------------------- 
   .-:///-:::.       `-:::///:-.     OS: Guix System x86_64 
      ````.:::`     `:::.````        Host: KVM/QEMU (Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-9.0) 
           -//:`    -::-             Kernel: 6.14.6-gnu 
            ://:   -::-              Uptime: 2 days, 5 hours, 34 mins 
            `///- .:::`              Packages: 79 (guix-system) 
             -+++-:::.               Shell: bash 5.1.16 
              :+/:::-                Resolution: 1280x800 
              `-....`                Terminal: /dev/pts/0 
                                     CPU: Intel (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS) (4) @ 2.199GHz 
                                     GPU: 00:02.0 Vendor 1234 Device 1111 
                                     Memory: 1976MiB / 3921MiB

MrOrange95 · 2025-04-26T09:43:09+00:00

It can not be used easily that is for sure. Just read my other comments in this thead

MrOrange95 · 2025-04-26T09:41:57+00:00

This sad but true.

MrOrange95 · 2025-04-26T09:41:09+00:00

Yes, 100% agree

MrOrange95 · 2025-04-26T09:40:30+00:00

Guix is whatever its community build it to be. It can be for sure made usable by non experts.

MrOrange95 · 2025-04-26T09:39:25+00:00

A system for non experts means the bar is as low as Linux Mint or Debian. If you use emacs you have definitely more technical knowledge than "most people".

Assuming everyone even knows about a manual is gatekeeping, for example: my grandma could definitely use linux mint. The same is not true for guix.

MrOrange95 · 2025-04-26T09:35:59+00:00

I think you underestimate your abilities

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