GNU bug report logs - #25242
Cannot build source derivations with a custom TMPDIR

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 08:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 25242 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25242: Cannot build source derivations with a custom TMPDIR
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 22:29:38 +0100

Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> skribis:

> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:20:20AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Good catch!
>> 
>> AFAICS the flaw is that there’s one place where I wrote:
>> 
>>   if (useChroot && !isBuiltin(drv))
>> 
>> while several other places just do something like:
>> 
>>   if (useChroot)
>> 
>> Could the patch below solve the problem?
>
> I'm not sure how to test patches to the daemon. Does it require creating
> a new guix-devel snapshot?

You can apply it to your source tree and run:

  sudo ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild

from there (or similar).

HTH!

Ludo’.
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