GNU bug report logs - #42983
"sudo -E guix pull" breaks ~/.config/guix/current for regular user

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 42983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42983: "sudo -E guix pull" breaks ~/.config/guix/current for regular user
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:22:41 -0400

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:27:50PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Paul <paul <at> denknerd.org> reported on IRC that his guix behaved strangely.  Upon
> investigation we found that the following happens (on a Guix system), when logged
> in as regular user (not root):
> 
> $ readlink ~/.config/guix/current
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/dannym/current-guix
> $ sudo -E guix pull
> $ readlink ~/.config/guix/current
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix

What is expected to happen in this case? Why would one want to use an
unprivileged environment with privileges to do `guix pull`, which is a
per-user operation?

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