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bug#42983: "sudo -E guix pull" breaks ~/.config/guix/current for regular
From: |
Bengt Richter |
Subject: |
bug#42983: "sudo -E guix pull" breaks ~/.config/guix/current for regular user |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:20:09 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
Hi,
On +2020-08-22 12:27:50 +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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):
>
> $ 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
>
> You can also rm -f ~/.config/guix/current after that and do everything above
> again and it will happen again. It even happens when guix pull has nothing to
> do.
>
> That doesn't seem right. We should at least try to prevent this from
> happening,
> or warn or something.
>
ISTM it looks like a bug that should be fixed[1], urgently, not just warned
about :)
[1] eliminated from the possibility of happening :)
> The guix package manager that did that is:
>
> $ sudo -E guix describe
> Generation 64 Aug 22 2020 11:41:04 (current)
> guix dad963a
> repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> branch: master
> commit: dad963a4393ea51409baa63817b26b449ed58338
> heads 50b97d4
> repository URL: https://github.com/daym/heads-guix.git
> branch: wip-musl
> commit: 50b97d446ebafd0be7a0e19d87cd236882093244
>
> $ sudo -i
> # guix describe
> Generation 64 22. August 2020 11:41:04 (aktuell)
> guix dad963a
> Repository-URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> Branch: master
> Commit: dad963a4393ea51409baa63817b26b449ed58338
> heads 50b97d4
> Repository-URL: https://github.com/daym/heads-guix.git
> Branch: wip-musl
> Commit: 50b97d446ebafd0be7a0e19d87cd236882093244
I find it peculiar that root (sudo -i) looks like it's using swedish locale
("aktuell" is swedish for "current") with the rest of the output identical.
(Hm, maybe that's also Norwegian ;-)
If describe is describing two things that are identical end values of
readlink -f thing{1..2}, I think it would be helpful to show the thing{1..2}
profile links it's using.
BTW, what would sudo guix describe without the -E (preserving user environment)
have produced?
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter