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bug#58084: guix deploy fails, leaving the newly installed system generat
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Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: |
bug#58084: guix deploy fails, leaving the newly installed system generation active |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:48:11 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello again,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
>> … which is fine, except that there was already a pre-existing
>> /etc/modprobe.d directory (coming from openSuSE, the distro that was
>> initially installed on this machine), which caused this activation code
>> to break:
>
> Oh wow! Should we be extra careful and always rm files before linking to
> their location? Or define our own 'symlink' procedure that'd take care
> of it? That's not very elegant but better than obscure crashes like
> this.
I just had a better idea: fail and report that an unexpected file was
found there, leaving the user to inspect it and choose a proper action.
Thanks,
Maxim