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unpack phase randomly changes the cwd

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From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name>, 55270 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55270: unpack phase randomly changes the cwd
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:47:42 +0200

Am Dienstag, dem 12.07.2022 um 10:11 -0400 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
> 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?
That's what the docstring of url-fetch/tarbomb leads me to believe,
yes.  Is it not helpful?

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