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New ‘guix pull’ /root/.config/current/bin/guix: Permission denied

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12 <at> thebird.nl>
Cc: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net>, 32183 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32183: New ‘guix pull’ /root/.config/current/bin/guix: Permission denied
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:26:43 +0200

Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12 <at> thebird.nl> skribis:

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:12:15PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The download process is running as a build user, not as root, hence the
>> permission issue (silly me!).
>> 
>> Now we need to find a way to use ‘guix’ from root’s
>> ~/.config/guix/current.  A solution may be to expose that profile under
>> /var/guix/profiles.  Needs more thought…
>
> Great! Any quick hacks to fix this?

A quick workaround is to run ‘guix-daemon’ from the ‘guix’ package.  So,
as root, you’d do:

  guix pull             # if you haven’t done it recently
  guix package -i guix  # to install or upgrade guix

Then make sure your systemd (or whatever) config file returns to
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon as it
does when you install Guix from the binary tarball.

HTH!

Ludo’.

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