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Re: Daemon: nix-connection-error
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Daemon: nix-connection-error |
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Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:20:12 +0200 |
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Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden> skribis:
>> Handle what?
>
> Handle this situation. But I guess it's not needed because noone should
> normally have '/homeless-shelter'.
>
> I was testing a package from its build directory and forgot to unset
> some variables ($HOME, for instance).
Ah, so this was not the log of a chroot build, right? (There’s no
/homeless-shelter directory in the chroot.)
>> What was the error message exactly?
>
> guix build: error: build failed: directory `/homeless-shelter' exists;
> please remove it
Perfect, then. :-)
>> unless running as root.
>
> Well, my understanding is that it shouldn't be harmful (under normal
> circumstances) for the main system. But it's not smart because you
> could affect the chroot itself, which is not desirable anyway. So, I'm
> going to use '--userspec' from now on.
Not sure what --userspec is.
Anyway, in general, it’s a bad idea to do “normal things” as root,
because it’s easy to inadvertently break the system one way or another.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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