Re: Fixing git permissions after sudo guix pull

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Hi John,

I thought that any modern 'guix pull' would protect[0] itself from accidental 
sudoage.  Perhaps the check's a little naive.  Or there's some subtler effect 
of using sudo...

How confident are you that the ownership is incorrect?  The only "incorrect 
data check" error string I could find was in zlib, which would point to pack 
file corruption more than incorrect ownership.

Guix's git checkouts are stashed in ~/.cache/guix/checkouts.  As the name 
implies you can safely delete it or even the entire 'guix' directory, at the 
expense of subsequent downloads & computation.

You could also rename it for later investigation, but I'm unable to volunteer 
for that myself.  Don't feel obliged.

[0]: 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/guix/scripts/pull.scm?id=7c52cad0464175370c44bd4695e4c01a62b8268f


Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent on the go.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.