Subject: Re: bug#39194: help for non-root users to start using

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:06:26 +0100

Hi,

Bengt Richter <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Did that commit cause an automatic update to the tarball
> found and used by the binary install script [1] ??

No, it didn’t automatically create a new Guix release.

> commit 7842ddcbc118cbc2799e22651732b7cdc06b93ee
> Author: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Sun Jan 19 22:52:31 2020 +0100
>
>     guix package: Create profiles/per-user/$USER upfront.
>     
>     Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/39194>.
>     Reported by Matt Wette <[email-masked]>.
>     
>     * guix/scripts/package.scm (build-and-use-profile): Move
>     'ensure-default-profile' call to...
>     (process-actions): ... here. 
>  --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> So for a script user, 2019-05-19 16:54 tarball vs Sun Jan 19 22:52:31 2020 fix
> appears to be a problem :)

The problem Matt reported came up after running ‘guix pull’.  Someone
running ‘guix pull’ today will get the fix above.

HTH!

Ludo’.