bug#58858: closed (Installation script fails on distributions that use busybox)

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> Installation script fails on distributions that use busybox
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> Fri, 28 Oct 2022 22:30:57 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux)
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> Hi,
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> Following the instructions in the manual, I attempted to install the
> package manager in Alpine Linux via the official installation
> script. However, after completing the first prompts I got the error
> "mktemp: (null): Invalid argument". Upon closer inspection of the script
> and busybox's `mktemp' help page, which states the following:
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> TEMPLATE must end with XXXXXX (e.g. [/dir/]nameXXXXXX)
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> It's clear that the script should be modified to account for this with
> at least 6 "X" characters in the template, and this wouldn't pose a
> problem with GNU's `mktemp' because it takes "at least" 3 of them.
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> -- 
> Best regards,
> conses
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> Re: bug#58858: Installation script fails on distributions that use busybox
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> Date: 
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> Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:30:46 -0500
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> Hi,
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> conses <contact@conses.eu> writes:
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> > Hi,
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> > Following the instructions in the manual, I attempted to install the
> > package manager in Alpine Linux via the official installation
> > script. However, after completing the first prompts I got the error
> > "mktemp: (null): Invalid argument". Upon closer inspection of the script
> > and busybox's `mktemp' help page, which states the following:
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> > TEMPLATE must end with XXXXXX (e.g. [/dir/]nameXXXXXX)
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> > It's clear that the script should be modified to account for this with
> > at least 6 "X" characters in the template, and this wouldn't pose a
> > problem with GNU's `mktemp' because it takes "at least" 3 of them.
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> Thanks for the investigation and solution.  Applied in 6aa5d1dc24, which
> should now be live at https://guix.gnu.org/install.sh.
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> Thanks,
> Maxim
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