GNU bug report logs - #36785
'sudo guix pull' failure in the profile migration code

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>

Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 37148

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 36785-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 36785-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
Subject: Re: bug#36785: Impossible to pull on foreign distro
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 10:24:18 +0200

Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> skribis:

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

[...]

>> We could apply the patch I posted earlier, which simply disables profile
>> migration when SUDO_USER is set.  That won’t address the fact that root
>> writes to the user’s ~/.cache, but there’s not much we can do here.
>
> This sounds fine to me.

I went ahead and pushed that as
ee25048e51dd45ad91a1ad4b0f25f4013843c52b.

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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