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<noxi>when doing a `guix shell -C`, is there a way to propagate signals? I'm trying to kill the `guile` parent process and it doesn't propagate to the children

<noxi>nevermind, I found an alternative way

<ryanprior>today I did another round of testing with my workflows and everything which was broken the other day is doing great now. big ups to the crew keeping the wheels on the thing! this has been a whirlwind of a week.

<Deltafire>that's my guix experience, one day everything is broken and your contemplating your choices in life, and then everything is working again

<Deltafire>..mostly

<jresich>hello guix

<jresich>does anyone know how to use the 'file-like object' functions outside of a big guix config?

<jresich>like is there a way in the repl to just use `scheme-file` and get back a file path

<gabber>yes, there is

<gabber>but i can't remember or look up rn

<gabber>i guess the manual entry for `run-with-store' has answers for you

<ieure>,build (scheme-file ...)

<ieure>jresich, What's the usecase?

<jresich>ieure: i want to make sure my service configurations will do what i'm expecting them to do

<jresich>and i am on a very slow internet connection so building the whole system is a pain

<ieure>jresich, Then the ,build REPL metacommand is the simplest way to do that.

<jresich>thank you!

<gabber>jresich: IIUC if you only change 1 config file (and don't do a `guix pull` in between) reconfiguration should not actually download anything or take especially long

<ieure>It depends on what you change, but yes, reconfiguring without a pull is much faster.

<pinoaffe>I vaguely recall an email/writeup about someone setting up their graphical session such that exwm is launched as a user-shepherd-service - anyone know where to find that?

<gabber>what's the correct way to run gnu/tests/mail.scm? make check TESTS='gnu/tests/mail.scm' runs, passes, skips and fails 0 tests each

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