GNU bug report logs - #52103
guix pull: guix-manual.drv' failed with exit code 1, In procedure copy-file: Permission denied

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 52103-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52103: guix pull: guix-manual.drv' failed with exit code 1,
 In procedure copy-file: Permission denied
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:05:29 +0100

Hi,

Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

[...]

>> Ah yes, that looks like a problem: “doc”, which is taken straight from
>> the checkout, normally does not contain *.LANG.texi; those files are not
>> checked in.
>>
>> Could it be that ~/.cache/guix/checkouts contains a non-pristine
>> checkout of Guix with that extra file?
>
> That looks like the issue.

Ah, good to know.

[...]

> That outputs 259 other files as well. Maybe it's worth running git clean
> on the cache directory, or only pulling files in from the cache
> directory if they're tracked by git.

(guix git) does a hard reset in ‘switch-to-ref’, which is normally
enough as long as the user doesn’t manually fiddle with the checkout.

Should we add something there?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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