Subject: bug#55270: unpack phase randomly changes the cwd

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:11:46 -0400

Hi,

Liliana Marie Prikler <[email-masked]> writes:

> Am Donnerstag, dem 05.05.2022 um 11:16 +0000 schrieb Attila Lendvai:
>> at the end of the unpack phase, the working directory is changed to a
>> random directory.
>> 
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm#n178
>> 
>> this is fine *when* the archive contains a single dir... but this
>> DWIM'ness has just burned 15 mintues of my life, and i recommend
>> removing it.

> url-fetch/tarbomb: Now this looks like a job for me.

Just to make sure, are you suggesting the archive type used here would
have been better handled by url-fetch/tarboom?

Thanks,

Maxim