bug#42859: guix lint: permission denied for cve checker

[Jonathan Brielmaier]

On 14.08.20 20:27, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 02:26:03PM +0200, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote:
>> When running guix lint with the cve checker I get the following error:
>>
>> ```
>> guix lint icecat --checkers=cve
>> fetching CVE database for 2020...view1 [cve]...
> [...]
>> In procedure mkdir: Permission denied
>> ```
>
> Do you know which directory that is? You can run the comand with `strace
> -f` to check.

Ah thanks for that hint!

[...]
[pid 20797] mkdir("/home/jonathan/.cache/guix", 0777) = -1 EEXIST (Die
Datei existiert bereits)
[pid 20797] mkdir("/home/jonathan/.cache/guix/http", 0777) = -1 EACCES
(Keine Berechtigung)
[pid 20797] write(2, "Backtrace:\n", 11Backtrace:
) = 11
[...]

ll /home/jonathan/.cache/guix
insgesamt 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 17. Jun 00:00 authentication/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096  7. Jun 11:53 checkouts/

So i wonder now why it's owned by root and not by jonathan:users like
the rest (apart from guile) in ~/.cache/