GNU bug report logs - #78363
Home is read-only in guix shell container

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Package: guix;

Reported by: keinflue <keinflue <at> posteo.net>

Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 23:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 78440

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: keinflue <keinflue <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 78363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78363: Home is read-only in guix shell container
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 17:06:51 +0200

Hi,

keinflue <keinflue <at> posteo.net> writes:

> I am not sure whether this is intended behavior, but it seems weird to
> me. Inside e.g.
>
> guix shell -Cu test coreutils
>
> /home/test is mounted read-only and I do not see any way to make it
> writable without sharing a host directory.

As noted in the ‘guix pull’ news, you can use ‘--writable-root’.
Otherwise, everything but the current directory and /tmp is read-only.

Ludo’.
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