Hi, On +2020-08-22 12:27:50 +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hello, > > Paul <[email protected]> reported on IRC that his guix behaved strangely. > Upon > investigation we found that the following happens (on a Guix system), when > logged > in as regular user (not root): > > $ readlink ~/.config/guix/current > /var/guix/profiles/per-user/dannym/current-guix > $ sudo -E guix pull > $ readlink ~/.config/guix/current > /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix > > You can also rm -f ~/.config/guix/current after that and do everything above > again and it will happen again. It even happens when guix pull has nothing to > do. > > That doesn't seem right. We should at least try to prevent this from > happening, > or warn or something. >
ISTM it looks like a bug that should be fixed[1], urgently, not just warned about :) [1] eliminated from the possibility of happening :) > The guix package manager that did that is: > > $ sudo -E guix describe > Generation 64 Aug 22 2020 11:41:04 (current) > guix dad963a > repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > branch: master > commit: dad963a4393ea51409baa63817b26b449ed58338 > heads 50b97d4 > repository URL: https://github.com/daym/heads-guix.git > branch: wip-musl > commit: 50b97d446ebafd0be7a0e19d87cd236882093244 > > $ sudo -i > # guix describe > Generation 64 22. August 2020 11:41:04 (aktuell) > guix dad963a > Repository-URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > Branch: master > Commit: dad963a4393ea51409baa63817b26b449ed58338 > heads 50b97d4 > Repository-URL: https://github.com/daym/heads-guix.git > Branch: wip-musl > Commit: 50b97d446ebafd0be7a0e19d87cd236882093244 I find it peculiar that root (sudo -i) looks like it's using swedish locale ("aktuell" is swedish for "current") with the rest of the output identical. (Hm, maybe that's also Norwegian ;-) If describe is describing two things that are identical end values of readlink -f thing{1..2}, I think it would be helpful to show the thing{1..2} profile links it's using. BTW, what would sudo guix describe without the -E (preserving user environment) have produced? -- Regards, Bengt Richter
