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‘sudo guix pull’ creates root-owned /home/$USER/.cache/guix/… |
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Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:56:32 +0200 |
Guix,
After running ‘sudo guix pull’, some directories that guix
assumes to be writable are not:
$ guix pull
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at
'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
guix pull: error: Git error: failed to create temporary file
'/home/adom/.cache/guix/pull/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/.git/objects/pack/pack_git2_dVwpVq':
Permission denied
$
Now Guix isn't doing anything wrong, per se, and that error
message will tip off most jaded Unixbeards, but how about a:
$ guix pull
warning: /home/<USER>/.cache/… is not writable by the current
user <USER>
hint: You might want to run ‘chown -R <USER>:<USER> /home/…’
[or just delete it outright? -nckx]
…
?
Thanks to adom` in #guix for posting that output.
Kind regards,
T G-R
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Re: bug#36785: Impossible to pull on foreign distro |
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Thu, 19 Sep 2019 10:24:18 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>> We could apply the patch I posted earlier, which simply disables profile
>> migration when SUDO_USER is set. That won’t address the fact that root
>> writes to the user’s ~/.cache, but there’s not much we can do here.
>
> This sounds fine to me.
I went ahead and pushed that as
ee25048e51dd45ad91a1ad4b0f25f4013843c52b.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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