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Re: [Man-db-devel] Test failures in man-db > 2.7.6


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: Re: [Man-db-devel] Test failures in man-db > 2.7.6
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 21:41:11 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23)

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:16:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>         o The owner of cache files is now configured separately from whether
>           man and mandb are installed setuid, using the
>           --enable-cache-owner[=USER] option.
> 
> Is it your intention that the cache files (e.g. index.db) be owned by
> the root user in Guix?  If so, try adding --enable-cache-owner=root.

Thanks, this put me on the right path. It seems that we need to pass
'disable-cache-owner' to make things work in our build environment
chroot, where the root and man users don't exist.

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