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git-fetched packages' working copy is not writable

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 43015 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43015: git-fetched packages' working copy is not writable
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:22:56 +0300

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:13:59AM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the working copy of a package build when the package was git-fetched is not
> writable.
> 
> On the other hand, if it's url-fetched, it's perfectly writable.
> 
> Shall we fix this on core-updates ?

(ins)efraim <at> E5400 ~/workspace/guix$ git grep make-files-writable | grep unpack | grep gnu/packages
gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm:         (add-after 'unpack 'make-files-writable
gnu/packages/code.scm:                    (add-after 'unpack 'make-files-writable
gnu/packages/djvu.scm:         (add-after 'unpack 'make-files-writable
gnu/packages/java.scm:         (add-after 'unpack 'make-files-writable
gnu/packages/java.scm:         (add-after 'unpack 'make-files-writable
gnu/packages/java.scm:         (add-after 'unpack 'make-files-writable
gnu/packages/java.scm:         (add-after 'unpack 'make-files-writable
gnu/packages/machine-learning.scm:         (add-after 'unpack 'make-files-writable
gnu/packages/ocaml.scm:         (add-after 'unpack 'make-files-writable
gnu/packages/ruby.scm:                    (add-after 'unpack 'make-files-writable

My only concern would be if there were files which weren't supposed to
be writable. We're building the package, not making changes to be
submitted upstream or anything, so I don't see that as being a reason to
hold back.

I'm in favor



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