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unpack phase randomly changes the cwd

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Message #17 received at 55270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name>, 55270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55270: unpack phase randomly changes the cwd
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:11:46 -0400

Hi,

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com> 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

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