Guix

Guix

GNU Guix is (1) a transactional package manager and (2) a GNU/Linux distribution.

My personal selling points are declarative package configuration and transactional upgrades.

References:

Profiles

A profile is a way to group Guix packages. Amongst its advantages, profiles can be defined by manifests, which in turn can be stored in VCS.

References:

Activate profiles

A script to activate guix profiles. Usage:

activate-profiles [profile1] [profile2] ...

Source: David Wilson’s config

GREEN='\033[1;32m'
RED='\033[1;30m'
NC='\033[0m'
GUIX_EXTRA_PROFILES=$HOME/.guix-extra-profiles

profiles=$*
if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
    profiles="$HOME/.config/guix/manifests/*.scm";
fi

for profile in $profiles; do
  # Remove the path and file extension, if any
  profileName=$(basename $profile)
  profileName="${profileName%.*}"
  profilePath="$GUIX_EXTRA_PROFILES/$profileName"
  manifestPath=$HOME/.config/guix/manifests/$profileName.scm

  if [ -f $manifestPath ]; then
    echo
    echo -e "${GREEN}Activating profile:" $manifestPath "${NC}"
    echo

    mkdir -p $profilePath
    guix package --manifest=$manifestPath --profile="$profilePath/$profileName"

    # Source the new profile
    GUIX_PROFILE="$profilePath/$profileName"
    if [ -f $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile ]; then
	. "$GUIX_PROFILE"/etc/profile
    else
	echo -e "${RED}Couldn't find profile:" $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile "${NC}"
    fi
  else
    echo "No profile found at path" $profilePath
  fi
done

Update profiles

A script to update Guix profiles. Usage:

update-profiles [profile1] [profile2] ...

Source: once again, David Wilson’s config.

GREEN='\033[1;32m'
NC='\033[0m'
GUIX_EXTRA_PROFILES=$HOME/.guix-extra-profiles

profiles=$*
if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
    profiles="$GUIX_EXTRA_PROFILES/*";
fi

for profile in $profiles; do
  profileName=$(basename $profile)
  profilePath=$GUIX_EXTRA_PROFILES/$profileName

  echo
  echo -e "${GREEN}Updating profile:" $profilePath "${NC}"
  echo

  guix package --profile="$profilePath/$profileName" --manifest="$HOME/.config/guix/manifests/$profileName.scm"
done

Run guix package in profile

GUIX_EXTRA_PROFILES=$HOME/.guix-extra-profiles

profileName=$(basename $1)
profileName="${profileName%.*}"
profilePath="$GUIX_EXTRA_PROFILES/$profileName"

if [ -d $profilePath ]; then
    guix package --profile="$profilePath/$profileName" ${@:2}
else
    echo -e "No profile found at path: " $profilePath
fi

Turn off Guix profiles

export PATH=$(echo $PATH | tr ":" "\n" | grep -vE "guix|nix|gnu" | tr "\n" ":")

Channels

Specifying additional channels.

channel-q is my Guix channel. Don’t use it at home.

References:

(cons*
 (channel
  (name 'channel-q)
  (url "file:///home/pavel/_channel-q"))
 (channel
  (name 'flat)
  (url "https://github.com/flatwhatson/guix-channel.git")
  (introduction
   (make-channel-introduction
    "33f86a4b48205c0dc19d7c036c85393f0766f806"
    (openpgp-fingerprint
     "736A C00E 1254 378B A982  7AF6 9DBE 8265 81B6 4490"))))
 (channel
  (name 'nonguix)
  (url "https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix")
  ;; (commit "d54973e47b89fe5772a5b6e2d0c0b86acb089e27")
  (introduction
   (make-channel-introduction
    "897c1a470da759236cc11798f4e0a5f7d4d59fbc"
    (openpgp-fingerprint
     "2A39 3FFF 68F4 EF7A 3D29  12AF 6F51 20A0 22FB B2D5"))))
 (channel
  ;; What can possibly go wrong, huh
  (name 'guix-gaming-games)
  (url "https://gitlab.com/guix-gaming-channels/games.git")
  ;; Enable signature verification:
  (introduction
   (make-channel-introduction
    "c23d64f1b8cc086659f8781b27ab6c7314c5cca5"
    (openpgp-fingerprint
     "50F3 3E2E 5B0C 3D90 0424  ABE8 9BDC F497 A4BB CC7F"))))
 %default-channels)

Systems

Configuring systems with Guix.

Yes, all my machines are named after colors I like.

Base configuration

The base configuration is shared between all the machines.

While it’s possible to make a single .scm file with base configuration and load it, I noticed that it produces more cryptic error messages whenever there is an error in the base file, so I opt-in for noweb.

guix system invocation is as follows:

sudo -E guix system reconfigure ~/.config/guix/systems/[system].scm

Common modules:

(use-modules (gnu))
(use-modules (gnu system nss))
(use-modules (gnu packages bash))
(use-modules ((gnu packages base) #:select (coreutils glibc)))
(use-modules (gnu packages certs))
(use-modules (gnu packages version-control))
(use-modules (gnu packages vim))
(use-modules (gnu packages gnome))
(use-modules (gnu packages xorg))
(use-modules (gnu packages wm))
(use-modules (gnu packages openbox))
(use-modules (gnu services docker))
(use-modules (gnu services cups))
(use-modules (gnu services virtualization))
(use-modules (srfi srfi-1))
(use-modules (guix channels))
(use-modules (guix inferior))
(use-modules (nongnu packages linux))
(use-modules (nongnu system linux-initrd))

(use-service-modules desktop networking ssh xorg nix)
(use-package-modules ssh)

In principle, we could define a variable called base-operating-system and extend it in ancestors. However, then we would have to define mandatory fields like host-name, bootloader with dummy values. Since I’m already using noweb, there is little point.

The following code will be inserted at the top of the operating-system definition.

Use the full Linux kernel. I hope I’ll be able to use Libre kernel somewhere later.

Inferior in the kernel is used to avoid recompilation. It looks like I can pin these to different commits than in my channels.scm

(kernel
  (let*
      ((channels
	(list (channel
	       (name 'nonguix)
	       (url "https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix")
	       (commit "213be7ee6676fc4a3db0e3ac9ce5cd79e2ed209e"))
	      (channel
	       (name 'guix)
	       (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git")
	       (commit "6311493d7a6271bfbc51f4693857f9a12fe9965d"))))
       (inferior
	(inferior-for-channels channels)))
    (first (lookup-inferior-packages inferior "linux" "6.2.9"))))
;; (kernel linux)
(initrd microcode-initrd)
(firmware (list linux-firmware))
(locale "en_US.utf8")
(timezone "Europe/Moscow")

US/RU keyboard layout, switch with Alt+Shift.

(keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "us,ru" #:options '("grp:alt_shift_toggle")))

User accounts.

(users (cons* (user-account
	       (name "pavel")
	       (comment "Pavel")
	       (group "users")
	       (home-directory "/home/pavel")
	       (supplementary-groups
		'("wheel"  ;; sudo
		  "netdev" ;; network devices
		  "audio"
		  "video"
		  "input"
		  "tty"
		  "docker"
		  "scanner"
		  "libvirt"
		  "lp")))
	      %base-user-accounts))

Base packages, necessary right after the installation.

(packages
 (append
  (list nss-certs
	    git
	i3-gaps
	i3lock
	openbox
	xterm
	    vim)
  %base-packages))

Default services for each machine:

  • override the default %desktop-services to add OpenVPN support
  • add nix service
  • add docker service
  • add CUPS service
  • add libvirt service
  • add a symlink to ELF interpreter to where most Linux binaries expect it
(define %my-base-services
  (cons*
   (service openssh-service-type)
   (screen-locker-service i3lock "i3lock")
   (extra-special-file "/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2" (file-append glibc "/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2"))
   (service nix-service-type)
   (service cups-service-type
	    (cups-configuration
	     (web-interface? #t)))
   (service docker-service-type)
   (service libvirt-service-type
	    (libvirt-configuration
	     (unix-sock-group "libvirt")
	     (tls-port "16555")))
   (service virtlog-service-type)
   (bluetooth-service #:auto-enable? #f)
   (modify-services %desktop-services
		    (network-manager-service-type
		     config =>
		     (network-manager-configuration
		      (inherit config)
		      (vpn-plugins (list network-manager-openvpn))))
		    (guix-service-type
		     config =>
		     (guix-configuration
		      (inherit config)
		      (substitute-urls
		       (append (list "https://substitutes.nonguix.org")
			       %default-substitute-urls))
		      (authorized-keys
		       (append (list (local-file "./signing-key.pub"))
			       %default-authorized-guix-keys)))))))

indigo

indigo is my desktop PC.

<<system-common>>

(operating-system
 <<system-base>>

 (host-name "indigo")
 (services (cons*
	    (set-xorg-configuration
	     (xorg-configuration
	      (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
	    %my-base-services))

 (bootloader
  (bootloader-configuration
   (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
   (target "/boot/efi")
   (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))

 (swap-devices
  (list (uuid "3a77c542-7d24-46ff-8123-f7398d1c2677")))

 (file-systems
  (cons* (file-system
	  (mount-point "/")
	  (device (file-system-label "my-root"))
	  (type "ext4"))
	     (file-system
	      (mount-point "/boot/efi")
	      (device "/dev/sda1")
	      (type "vfat"))
	 %base-file-systems)))

eminence

eminence is a HP 15s laptop.

%backlight-udev-rule should enable members of video group change the display backlight. See the relevant page at Arch Wiki.

<<system-common>>

(define %backlight-udev-rule
  (udev-rule
   "90-backlight.rules"
   (string-append "ACTION==\"add\", SUBSYSTEM==\"backlight\", "
		  "RUN+=\"/run/current-system/profile/bin/chgrp video /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness\""
		  "\n"
		  "ACTION==\"add\", SUBSYSTEM==\"backlight\", "
		  "RUN+=\"/run/current-system/profile/bin/chmod g+w /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness\"")))

(operating-system
 <<system-base>>

 (host-name "eminence")
 (services (cons*
	    (set-xorg-configuration
	     (xorg-configuration
	      (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
	    (modify-services %my-base-services
			     (elogind-service-type
			      config =>
			      (elogind-configuration
			       (inherit config)
			       (handle-lid-switch-external-power 'suspend)))
			     (udev-service-type
			      config =>
			      (udev-configuration
			       (inherit config)
			       (rules (cons %backlight-udev-rule
					    (udev-configuration-rules config))))))))

 (bootloader
  (bootloader-configuration
   (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
   (target "/boot/efi")
   (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))

 (swap-devices
  (list (uuid "f93cf3f6-7ee7-42ec-8ee2-f3d896fdf9b5")))

 (file-systems
  (cons* (file-system
	  (mount-point "/")
	  (device
	   (uuid "1d937704-bbeb-43b5-bc63-453886c426af"
		 'ext4))
	  (type "ext4"))
	 (file-system
	  (mount-point "/boot/efi")
	  (device (uuid "0031-3784" 'fat32))
	  (type "vfat"))
	 %base-file-systems)))

azure

azure is a Lenovo Ideapad 330 laptop.

%backlight-udev-rule should enable members of video group change the display backlight. See the relevant page at Arch Wiki.

<<system-common>>

(define %backlight-udev-rule
  (udev-rule
   "90-backlight.rules"
   (string-append "ACTION==\"add\", SUBSYSTEM==\"backlight\", "
		  "RUN+=\"/run/current-system/profile/bin/chgrp video /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness\""
		  "\n"
		  "ACTION==\"add\", SUBSYSTEM==\"backlight\", "
		  "RUN+=\"/run/current-system/profile/bin/chmod g+w /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness\"")))

(operating-system
 <<system-base>>

 (host-name "azure")
 (services (cons*
	    (set-xorg-configuration
	     (xorg-configuration
	      (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
	    (modify-services %my-base-services
			     (elogind-service-type config =>
						   (elogind-configuration (inherit config)
									  (handle-lid-switch-external-power 'suspend)))
			     (udev-service-type config =>
						(udev-configuration (inherit config)
								    (rules (cons %backlight-udev-rule
										 (udev-configuration-rules config))))))))

 (bootloader
  (bootloader-configuration
   (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
   (target "/boot/efi")
   (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))

 (swap-devices
  (list (uuid "4b2dedb3-b111-4e69-8c05-6daa2b072c76")))

 (file-systems
  (cons* (file-system
	  (mount-point "/")
	  (device (file-system-label "my-root"))
	  (type "ext4"))
	     (file-system
	      (mount-point "/boot/efi")
	      (device "/dev/sda1")
	      (type "vfat"))
	 %base-file-systems)))

iris

iris is my work machine.

<<system-common>>

(operating-system
 <<system-base>>

 (host-name "iris")
 (services (cons*
	    (set-xorg-configuration
	     (xorg-configuration
	      (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
	    %my-base-services))

 (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
	      (bootloader grub-bootloader)
	      (targets (list "/dev/sdb"))
	      (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
 (swap-devices (list (swap-space
		      (target (uuid
			       "bc284384-ff00-4fbc-abda-1c46f69c0505")))))
 (mapped-devices (list (mapped-device
			(source (uuid
				 "21876acb-e05a-4731-8df0-ba5761910ca8"))
			(target "cryptroot")
			(type luks-device-mapping))))

 (file-systems (cons* (file-system
		       (mount-point "/")
		       (device "/dev/mapper/cryptroot")
		       (type "ext4")
		       (dependencies mapped-devices))
		      (file-system
		       (mount-point "/boot/efi")
		       (device (uuid "782E-F6D3"
				     'fat32))
		       (type "vfat")) %base-file-systems)))

System installation

Preparation

In my case, the provided ISO doesn’t work because of the Libre kernel.

Fortunately, David Wilson has made a repository with a toolchain to make an ISO with the full kernel. In case it won’t be an option, the nonguix repo also has instructions on how to do that.

When an ISO is there, we have to write it on a USB stick. Run sudo fdisk -l to get a list of disks.

The approach given in the official instruction is to create a bootable USB with dd:

sudo dd of=/dev/sdxX if=<path-to-iso> status=progress && sync

However, I couldn’t make it work for some strange reason. Fortunately, gnome-disk-utility was able to produce a bootable USB.

Installation

Going further, the official instructions for installation & SystemCrafters wiki entry are pretty good, so it’s not necessary to repeat them here.

After installation

After the installation, the strategy is as follows.

Set a password for the main user (pavel). Login with openbox to get a tolerable interface because i3’s default config is horrible.

Connect to the internet.

Clone the dotfiles repo:

mkdir Code
cd Code
git clone https://github.com/SqrtMinusOne/dotfiles.git

Copy the channels file and run guix pull:

cp ~/Code/dotfiles/.config/guix/channels.scm ~/.config/guix
guix pull

The first pull usually takes a while. After that install yadm and pull dotfiles:

guix install yadm
guix clone https://github.com/SqrtMinusOne/dotfiles.git

And activate the required profiles. Again, downloading & building Emacs, Starship and stuff will take a while.

Don’t forget to install JetBrainsMono Nerd Font.

Misc software & notes

Category Guix dependency Description
system patchelf A program to modify existsing ELF executables
system glibc A lot of stuff, including ELF interpeter and ldd
system tor-client
system torsocks
system vnstat
system nss-certs

OpenVPN

Category Guix dependency
system openvpn
system openvpn-update-resolve-conf
system openresolv
system vpnc

Update [2023-06-29 Thu]: My censors seem to be putting sticks in the wheels of OpenVPN… Switched to Wireguard for now. It can be configured with Network Manager.

I’m not sure how to properly spin up VPN on Guix, so here is what ended I’m doing after some trial and error.

I’m using Mullvad VPN. The ~/.vpn folder stores its OpenVPN config (openvpn.ovpn), modified as follows:

  • paths to ca, cert and key are made absolute

    ca /home/pavel/.vpn/ca.crt
    cert /home/pavel/.vpn/client.crt
    key /home/pavel/.vpn/client.key
    
  • added auth-user-pass with a link to login info

    auth-user-pass /home/pavel/.vpn/auth.conf
    

    auth.conf looks like this:

    login
    password
    
  • Run openvpn-update-resolv-conf script to prevent DNS leaks. openvpn-update-resolve-conf originates in my channel-q.

    Edit <2022-04-07 Thu>: Looks like this doesn’t work on some connections. See the next option in that case

    setenv PATH /home/pavel/.guix-extra-profiles/system/system/bin:/home/pavel/.guix-extra-profiles/system/system/sbin:/home/pavel/.guix-extra-profiles/console/console/bin:/run/current-system/profile/bin:/run/current-system/profile/sbin
    
    up /home/pavel/.guix-extra-profiles/system/system/bin/update-resolv-conf.sh
    down /home/pavel/.guix-extra-profiles/system/system/bin/update-resolv-conf.sh
    

    setenv PATH is necessary because both resolvconf (openresolve) and update-resolv-conf.sh are shell scripts which need GNU coreutils and stuff, and OpenVPN clears PATH by default.

  • Manually fix etc/resolv.conf to prevent DNS leaks

    /home/pavel/.guix-extra-profiles/console/console/bin/cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf-bak
    echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf
    

    Restore resolv.conf

    resolveconf -u
    
    up /home/pavel/bin/scripts/fix-resolve-conf
    down /home/pavel/bin/scripts/restore-resolve-conf
    
  • run a script to fix Docker routes

    route-up /home/pavel/bin/scripts/vpn-fix-routes
    

    References:

    The script itself:

    echo "Adding default route to $route_vpn_gateway with /0 mask..."
    
    if [ -f "/run/current-system/profile/sbin/ip" ]; then
        IP=/run/current-system/profile/sbin/ip
    else
        IP=/usr/bin/ip
    fi
    
    $IP route add default via $route_vpn_gateway
    
    echo "Removing /1 routes..."
    $IP route del 0.0.0.0/1 via $route_vpn_gateway
    $IP route del 128.0.0.0/1 via $route_vpn_gateway
    

vpn-start

As of now, CyberGhost doesn’t provide ipv6, so we have to disable it.

Mullvad seems to provide it, so the script just launches openvpn with pkexec.

export DISPLAY=:0
CONN=$(nmcli -f NAME con show --active | grep -Ev "(.*docker.*|NAME|br-.*|veth.*|tun.*|vnet.*|virbr.*)" | sed 's/ *$//g')

if [ -z "$CONN" ]; then
    echo "No connection!"
    notify-send "VPN" "No connection for VPN to run"
    exit
fi

# if [[ "$CONN" != *"Wired"* ]]; then
#     echo "Connection: $CONN"
#     notify-send "VPN" "Initializing for connection: $CONN"

#     pkexec nmcli con modify "$CONN" ipv6.method ignore
#     nmcli connection up "$CONN"
# fi
VPN_FILE=~/.vpn/sqrtminusone-$(hostname).ovpn
if [[ $(hostname) == 'iris' ]]; then
    VPN_FILE=~/.vpn/mullvad_openvpn_linux_se_all/mullvad_se_all.conf
fi
echo $VPN_FILE
pkexec openvpn --config $VPN_FILE

vpn-stop

Also a script to reverse the changes Also not necessary now. Just herd stop vpn and sudo pkill vpn.

CONN=$(nmcli -f NAME con show --active | grep -Ev "(.*docker.*|NAME|br-.*|veth.*|tun.*)" | sed 's/ *$//g')
echo "Connection: $CONN"

pkexec nmcli con modify "$CONN" ipv6.method auto
nmcli connection up "$CONN"

Wireguard

So, yeah, wireguard can be configured with NetworkManager just fine.

The issue with DNS leaks remains, but fortunately NetworkManager runs all scripts in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ when a connection changes, provided that scripts are:

  • owned by root
  • exectuable
  • not readable by other users
  • not setuid.

See this answer on StackExchange, and NetworkManager-dispatcher man page.

echo $(guix build network-manager | grep -ve '-doc$')/bin/nmcli

So, here’s the script:

#!/bin/sh
GREP=/run/current-system/profile/bin/grep
NMCLI=<<get-nmcli()>>

# Run only if wireguard is active
if $NMCLI connection show --active | $GREP -q wireguard; then
    echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf
fi

Expand the noweb with C-c C-v v, put it in dispatcher.d and run chmod 700.

flatpak

As for now, the easiest way to install most of proprietary software is via flatpak. See the relevant section in Desktop.org.

micromamba

conda mamba is a package manager that I use for managing various versions of Python & Node.js.

mamba is a reimplementation of conda in C++. mamba is notably much faster and mostly compatible with conda, and micromamba is a tiny version of mamba that is contained in one statically linked exectuable. I’ve migrated to micromamba mostly because of speed.

conda is packaged for Guix with its fair share of quirks, mostly concerning the impossibility of changing the base environment in /gnu/store/. micromamba has none of that because it doesn’t ship with a base environment. It’s not packaged for Guix yet, so I’ve made a definition with binary-build-system in my channel.

You may need to unset $PYTHONPATH if you have any global packages installed, otherwise Python from the environemnt will try to import them instead of the conda versions.

I also want to have an ability to use global npm. Some settings for that are located in Console.org. Here we want to unset NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG if there is npm available in the environment.

So here is a script to set up conda hooks:

# Get writable conda envs with npm & without it
readarray -t CONDA_ENVS_ALL <<< $(micromamba env list --json | jq '.envs[]')
CONDA_ENVS_NPM=()
CONDA_ENVS_NO_NPM=()
for env in "${CONDA_ENVS_ALL[@]}"; do
    env="${env:1:${#env}-2}"
    if [ -w "$env" ]; then
	if [ -f "$env/bin/npm" ]; then
	    CONDA_ENVS_NPM+=($env)
	else
	    CONDA_ENVS_NO_NPM+=($env)
	fi
    fi
done

for env in "${CONDA_ENVS_NPM[@]}"; do
    echo "Found npm in $env"
    mkdir -p "$env/etc/conda/activate.d"
    mkdir -p "$env/etc/conda/deactivate.d"

    echo "unset NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG" > "$env/etc/conda/activate.d/conda.sh"
    echo "set -e NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG" > "$env/etc/conda/activate.d/conda.fish"
    echo "export NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG=$HOME/._npmrc" > "$env/etc/conda/deactivate.d/conda.sh"
    echo "export NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG=$HOME/._npmrc" > "$env/etc/conda/deactivate.d/conda.fish"
done

for env in "${CONDA_ENVS_NO_NPM}"; do
    echo "Did not found npm in $env"
    rm -rf "$env/etc/conda/activate.d/conda.sh" || true
    rm -rf "$env/etc/conda/activate.d/conda.fish" || true
    rm -rf "$env/etc/conda/deactivate.d/conda.sh" || true
    rm -rf "$env/etc/conda/deactivate.d/conda.fish" || true
done

Slack

What a nonsense of a program.

I was able to launch the nix version with the following wrapper script:

export PATH="$HOME/bin/dummies:$PATH"
mkdir -p ~/.cache/slack
slack -r ~/.cache/slack

Also, it requires a lsb_release in the PATH, so here is one:

echo "LSB Version:    Hey. I spent an hour figuring out why Slack doesn't launch."
echo "Distributor ID: It seems like it requires an lsb_release."
echo "Description:    But GNU Guix doesn't have one."
echo "Release:        42.2"
echo "Codename:       n/a"

virt-manager

Run the following to fix the network:

sudo virsh net-define /run/current-system/profile/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml
sudo virsh net-start default
sudo herd restart libvirtd

wakatime-cli

Note Description
TODO Package this for Guix

Before I figure out how to package this for Guix:

  • Clone the repo
  • Run go build
  • Copy the binary to the ~/bin folder

Docker

Docker Compose plugin v2 isn’t yet available on Guix, but can be installed as follows:

curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.17.2/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o $HOME/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x $HOME/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

Manifest

(my/format-guix-dependencies category)

System

(specifications->manifest
 '(
   <<packages("system")>>))