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#37931
Cannot guix refresh -ru util-linux to get updated lsblk
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Reported by: Bengt Richter <bokr <at> bokr.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 01:24:03 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
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Message #25 received at 37931-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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Bengt Richter <bokr <at> bokr.com> writes:
> Hi Marius,
>
> On +2019-11-03 18:28:40 +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> Bengt Richter <bokr <at> bokr.com> writes:
>>
>> > On +2019-10-28 23:29:16 +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> >> The `lsblk` program requires root privileges in order to detect file
>> >> systems and UUIDs. I'm guessing your distribution makes it setuid root?
>> >>
>> >
>> > It doesn't look like it to me (the following snip is from TTY4, where I enabled guix paths and environment,
>> > so I can see ~/.guix-profile and /usr stuff at the same time):
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> > $ which -a lsblk|xargs readlink -f|xargs stat
>> > File: /gnu/store/xymkwf57x988q8cny2is1dgzrbr9xdfi-util-linux-2.34/bin/lsblk
>> > Size: 135560 Blocks: 272 IO Block: 4096 regular file
>> > Device: 10304h/66308d Inode: 1186253 Links: 2
>> > Access: (0555/-r-xr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
>> > Access: 2019-11-01 02:38:11.782574923 -0700
>> > Modify: 1969-12-31 16:00:01.000000000 -0800
>> > Change: 2019-10-08 18:18:48.226579757 -0700
>> > Birth: -
>> > File: /usr/bin/lsblk
>> > Size: 124992 Blocks: 248 IO Block: 4096 regular file
>> > Device: 10304h/66308d Inode: 264652 Links: 1
>> > Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
>> > Access: 2019-11-01 02:38:55.354524750 -0700
>> > Modify: 2019-06-27 03:04:01.000000000 -0700
>> > Change: 2019-07-06 00:59:13.620416635 -0700
>> > Birth: -
>> > $
>> > ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
>> > │ I see Access: is 0555 vs 0755, so doubt if that should be changed │
>> > └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>>
>> Indeed, there are no setuid bits there.
>>
>> I had a look at the lsblkd source code, and found that it has an
>> optional dependency on udev:
>>
>> https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/blob/ccafadb7c58865f73d209fcfc74483be96cdf64d/misc-utils/lsblk-properties.c
>>
>> I tried building util-linux with udev support, and got the same output
>> you expected without needing root privileges:
>>
>
> Sounds great ;-)
>
>> (define-public util-linux/udev
>> (package/inherit
>> util-linux
>> (name "util-linux-with-udev")
>> (inputs
>> `(("udev" ,eudev)
>> ,@(package-inputs util-linux)))))
>>
>> Now, eudev already depends on util-linux, so adding udev support to the
>> regular 'util-linux' package would introduce a circular dependency.
>>
>> I'm not sure what the best approach here is. We could add a
>> 'util-linux-minimal' for use in package inputs, and/or add a
>> udev-enabled variant to %base-packages.
>>
>> Thoughts?
This was finally committed in 71e0f1e9adbce4a6476a70bddabf13f6d7af2d40
and 01bb039e7b408893009d15f56cfcbdc8af70a4af.
>
> I'm a guix newbie :)
>
> I don't yet understand the internal dependency machinery of guix,
> so I'm wondering about the exact nature of the circularity.
>
> Is it really a kind of (let((... that needs to be a let*((...
> at some level? And which level of dependency are we talking about?
The circular dependency is straightforward: eudev *requires* util-linux
as part of its build process. Thus, eudev has util-linux as an input.
That version of util-linux can not depend on eudev, because we can not
build eudev without a working util-linux package.
Wrt the rest of the message, I share your sentiment, and think we will
get there. 'guix build --with-git-url' is pretty close already. :-)
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