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bug#42983: "sudo -E guix pull" breaks ~/.config/guix/current for regular
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From: |
Leo Famulari |
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Subject: |
bug#42983: "sudo -E guix pull" breaks ~/.config/guix/current for regular user |
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Date: |
Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:22:41 -0400 |
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:27:50PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Paul <paul@denknerd.org> reported on IRC that his guix behaved strangely.
> Upon
> investigation we found that the following happens (on a Guix system), when
> logged
> in as regular user (not root):
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> $ readlink ~/.config/guix/current
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/dannym/current-guix
> $ sudo -E guix pull
> $ readlink ~/.config/guix/current
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix
What is expected to happen in this case? Why would one want to use an
unprivileged environment with privileges to do `guix pull`, which is a
per-user operation?