NOTE: This package is in very early stages. I’m using it regularly, but many improvements need yet to be made, especially in being more extensible in various ways.

Guix Sudoloop Pull Ups

Guix pull and update with sudoloop. Elisp code which creates and runs shell scripts to more efficiently update Guix with sudoloop (for guix system reconfigure, to stop a full update process from hanging in the middle waiting the user to enter their sudo password) and multiple attempts at each action (to counteract transient timeouts/failure). In general, to make doing full guix updates (e.g., a sequence of guix pull, guix package -u, sudo guix system reconfigure ..., guix home reconfigure ...) be less painful.

Screenshots

How to Install

Easiest if you’re using Emacs 30 or above is the built-in vc-use-package. If you use an alternative/supplement package manager already, you probably know what you’re doing. Otherwise:

Manual

Clone this repo or copy the guix-sudoloop-pull-ups.el file somewhere and load it via init.el, e.g., copy to ~/.emacs.d/lisp/guix-sudoloop-pull-ups/ and put in your init.el:

(add-to-list 'load-path
             "~/.emacs.d/lisp/guix-sudoloop-pull-ups")
  (require 'guix-sudoloop-pull-ups)

vc-use-package [built-in]

Included in Emacs 30+. Probably the easiest method:

(use-package guix-sudoloop-pull-ups
  :vc (guix-sudoloop-pull-ups :url "https://github.com/emacsomancer/guix-sudoloop-pull-ups"
                    :branch "main")
  :ensure t)

vc-use-package [separately packaged]

The non-built-in version of vc-use-package uses slightly different syntax:

(use-package guix-sudoloop-pull-ups
  :vc (:fetcher github :repo "emacsomancer/guix-sudoloop-pull-ups")
  :ensure t)

elpaca

With elpaca:

(use-package guix-sudoloop-pull-ups
  :ensure (:host github :repo "emacsomancer/guix-sudoloop-pull-ups"))

straight

With straight:

(use-package guix-sudoloop-pull-ups
  :straight (guix-sudoloop-pull-ups :type git :host github :repo "emacsomancer/guix-sudoloop-pull-ups")
  :ensure t)

quelpa

With quelpa:

(use-package guix-sudoloop-pull-ups
  :quelpa (guix-sudoloop-pull-ups :fetcher github :repo "emacsomancer/guix-sudoloop-pull-ups")
  :ensure t)

With Elpaca

add to init.el:

(use-package guix-sudoloop-pull-ups
  :ensure (:host github :repo "emacsomancer/guix-sudoloop-pull-ups"))

Notes

Sudoloop

The sudoloop’ing part of the shell code is taken pretty much directly from Clar Fon’s implementation [https://codeberg.org/clarfonthey/sudoloop] (licensed under CC0 licence).

sudoloop issue/warning/possible dangers

• see: Jguer/yay#147 (comment)

Discussions

• posted to r/GUIX: https://www.reddit.com/r/GUIX/comments/1o57i8k/guix_sudoloop_pullups_a_workinprogress_for_smooth/