GNU bug report logs - #36443
Canonicalized build directory name in container leads to confusion

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>

Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 10:25:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 36443 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
To: 36443 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: suspicion
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 14:13:56 +0200

My suspicion right now is that there’s not any real mixup
happening, but that guix-daemon runs the build in a
different environment in the directory

/tmp/derivation-name.drv-0

which gets copied to

/tmp/derivation-name.drv-5

in the root filesystem by `guix build -K`, if directories
-0, -1, …, -4 already exist. In which case I’d suggest doing
something to the messages and/or documentation to make this
clearer.

E.g. instead of saying “keeping build directory <dir>” say
“keeping a copy of the build directory at <dir>”.
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