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glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40123: closed (glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:31:02 +0000

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From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael <at> djurfeldt.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael <at> djurfeldt.com>
Subject: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:51:14 +0100

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To reproduce the bug:

* install guix on top of an ordinary linux distribution using the install
script at guix.gnu.org

* install glibc-locales as root

Expected:

There should be a link ~root/.guix-profile/lib/locales

Actual:

No such link has been installed.

Note:

The link does get installed for other users than root.

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: mikael <at> djurfeldt.com
Cc: 40123-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40123: glibc-locales: links missing in root user profile
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 20:29:59 +0100

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Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael <at> djurfeldt.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:40 PM Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael <at> djurfeldt.com> writes:
>>
>> > To figure out where the package gets installed, try running this
>> >> command:
>> >>
>> >> find /var/guix/profiles -name sv_SE.utf8 -type d
>> >>
>> >
>> > It's obvious that that line will produce an empty result. That is because
>> > the sv_SE.utf8 directory only exists in the store. But I don't see the
>> > point of looking it up in the store. The problem is that the link into
>> the
>> > store from the root user profile is never created. (It *is* created in
>> > other user profiles.)
>>
>> I suspected that Guix installed it to a different user profile somehow,
>> since you did not get any errors apart from the missing directory (if I
>> read the bug report correctly).
>>
>> Does 'guix install hello' work?
>>
>
> Same problem there.
>
> But thank you for your hypothesis above! I tried a different line with ls
> -lLR and grep and then discovered that the links *are* indeed installed in
> a different profile.
>
> This led me to find my problem: For some reason, my ~root/.guix-profile was
> pointing to the current-guix profile rather than the guix-profile.
>
> It could have been me who did that. :(

Heh, at least you got a decent learning experience.  ;-)

> Anyway, problem solved! This was not a guix bug.

Awesome, glad you found the problem!  I'm closing the bug report.

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