Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>>                           (service (service-type
>>                                     (name 'break-gnome)
>>                                     (extensions
>>                                      (list (service-extension
>>                                             activation-service-type
>>                                             (lambda _
>>                                               #~(mkdir-p 
>> "/home/bob/.local/share/gnome-shell")))))
>>                                     (default-value #t))))
>>                     %desktop-services))
>>   (name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss))
>>
>> Note the “break-gnome” service.  When the service does not exist,
>> everything is fine.  It seems to me that the contents of the directory
>> really do not matter after all.
>
> Nice reproducer!

Argh, it’s unfortunately incorrect.  The problem here is that
“/home/bob” ends up being owned by root, which is the sole problem.

I’m trying to find another reproducer.

--
Ricardo