[debbugs-tracker] bug#37148: closed ( ‘sudo guix pull’ creates root-owned =?UTF-8?Q?/home/$USER/.cache/guix/=E2=80=A6?=)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #36785,
regarding ‘sudo guix pull’ creates root-owned /home/$USER/.cache/guix/…
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: ‘sudo guix pull’ creates root-owned /home/$USER/.cache/guix/… Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 18:56:32 +0200

Guix,

After running ‘sudo guix pull’, some directories that guix assumes to be writable are not:

 $ guix pull

Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... guix pull: error: Git error: failed to create temporary file '/home/adom/.cache/guix/pull/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/.git/objects/pack/pack_git2_dVwpVq': Permission denied

 $

Now Guix isn't doing anything wrong, per se, and that error message will tip off most jaded Unixbeards, but how about a:

 $ guix pull

warning: /home/<USER>/.cache/… is not writable by the current user <USER> hint: You might want to run ‘chown -R <USER>:<USER> /home/…’ [or just delete it outright? -nckx]

 …

?

Thanks to adom` in #guix for posting that output.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
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> >> We could apply the patch I posted earlier, which simply disables profile
> >> migration when SUDO_USER is set.  That won’t address the fact that root
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> > This sounds fine to me.
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