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Installation script fails on distributions that use busybox

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58858: closed (Installation script fails on distributions
 that use busybox)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:31:01 +0000

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From: conses <contact <at> conses.eu>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Installation script fails on distributions that use busybox
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 22:30:57 +0200

Hi,

Following the instructions in the manual, I attempted to install the
package manager in Alpine Linux via the official installation
script. However, after completing the first prompts I got the error
"mktemp: (null): Invalid argument". Upon closer inspection of the script
and busybox's `mktemp' help page, which states the following:

TEMPLATE must end with XXXXXX (e.g. [/dir/]nameXXXXXX)

It's clear that the script should be modified to account for this with
at least 6 "X" characters in the template, and this wouldn't pose a
problem with GNU's `mktemp' because it takes "at least" 3 of them.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: conses <contact <at> conses.eu>
Cc: 58858-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58858: Installation script fails on distributions that use
 busybox
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:30:46 -0500

Hi,

conses <contact <at> conses.eu> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Following the instructions in the manual, I attempted to install the
> package manager in Alpine Linux via the official installation
> script. However, after completing the first prompts I got the error
> "mktemp: (null): Invalid argument". Upon closer inspection of the script
> and busybox's `mktemp' help page, which states the following:
>
> TEMPLATE must end with XXXXXX (e.g. [/dir/]nameXXXXXX)
>
> It's clear that the script should be modified to account for this with
> at least 6 "X" characters in the template, and this wouldn't pose a
> problem with GNU's `mktemp' because it takes "at least" 3 of them.

Thanks for the investigation and solution.  Applied in 6aa5d1dc24, which
should now be live at https://guix.gnu.org/install.sh.

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Thanks,
Maxim

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