[Nix-dev] patch to allow switching profiles

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

Anyone want to review this patch?

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, roconnor at theorem.ca wrote:

> Here is a patch to allows nix-env -S to actually switch profiles.  Before the 
> patch switch profiles relinks the ~/.nix-profile directory, but because the 
> ~/.nix-profile directory wasn't in the path, this switch didn't really do 
> much.
>
> The patch makes me a little nervous because the path is set to 
> ~/.nix-profile, but the directory isn't created until later in /etc/profile. 
> Still, I think it is an improvement.
>
> Index: modules/programs/bash/bashrc.sh
> ===================================================================
> --- modules/programs/bash/bashrc.sh     (revision 23377)
> +++ modules/programs/bash/bashrc.sh     (working copy)
> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
> # Include the various profiles in the appropriate environment variables.
> NIX_USER_PROFILE_DIR=/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER
>
> -NIX_PROFILES="/var/run/current-system/sw /nix/var/nix/profiles/default 
> $NIX_USER_PROFILE_DIR/profile"
> +NIX_PROFILES="/var/run/current-system/sw /nix/var/nix/profiles/default 
> $HOME/.nix-profile"
>
> unset PATH INFOPATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH PERL5LIB GST_PLUGIN_PATH KDEDIRS
> unset XDG_CONFIG_DIRS XDG_DATA_DIRS
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
>
>
> # Search directory for Aspell dictionaries.
> -export ASPELL_CONF="dict-dir $NIX_USER_PROFILE_DIR/profile/lib/aspell"
> +export ASPELL_CONF="dict-dir $HOME/.nix-profile/lib/aspell"
>
>
> # ~/bin and the setuid wrappers override other bin directories.
>
>
>
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