Hi, Sorry for the long delay.
On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 15:54, David Truby <[email protected]> wrote: > When following the Contributing section of the manual in my home > directory, I was unable to use the built guix to do anything as I hit > upon a message saying "error: failed to run download program > '/home/truby/src/guix/scripts/guix': Permission denied​" > > After some debugging I realised this was because my home directory was > not world readable. I think to avoid other people having this problem > it might be worth mentioning in the manual that the source directory > needs to be readable by the guixbuild group for the users in that > group to be able to actually build anything. (In hindsight, this seems > obvious to me. But it wasn't when I first ran through that section of > the manual!) Since it appears to me obvious, I am not sure to see how to improve. Because you ran into the problem, do you want to give a try in rewording somewhere in the manual? All the best, simon
