bug#56444: Patch to fix Gitolite home directory permissions

[Thompson, David]

Hi again Maxime,

What do you think of my proposal?  Do any other maintainers care to chime in here?

- Dave

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 10:45 AM Thompson, David <dthompson2@worcester.edu> wrote:

Hi Maxime,

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 8:41 AM Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:

During "guix system reconfigure", there is now window where the
directory temporarily has incorrect bits and hence if gitolite is
restarted during that time it will presumably fail.  Could a
'home-permission-bits' or such field be added instead to <user-account>
to make things atomic?

That would be a nice improvement to backlog now that such a use case has emerged. However, I think for our immediate needs this one line patch, while imperfect, solves a longstanding problem adequately. So how about merging it, closing this bug, and opening a new bug for the system level improvement?

- Dave