From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 42983@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42983: "sudo -E guix pull" breaks ~/.config/guix/current for regular user
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:22:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200822162241.GA5895@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200822122750.78ddc111@scratchpost.org>
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:27:50PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Paul <paul@denknerd.org> reported on IRC that his guix behaved strangely. Upon
> investigation we found that the following happens (on a Guix system), when logged
> in as regular user (not root):
>
> $ readlink ~/.config/guix/current
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/dannym/current-guix
> $ sudo -E guix pull
> $ readlink ~/.config/guix/current
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix
What is expected to happen in this case? Why would one want to use an
unprivileged environment with privileges to do `guix pull`, which is a
per-user operation?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-22 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-22 10:27 bug#42983: "sudo -E guix pull" breaks ~/.config/guix/current for regular user Danny Milosavljevic
2020-08-22 16:20 ` Bengt Richter
2020-08-23 23:53 ` Danny Milosavljevic
[not found] ` <20200824023829.GA18670@LionPure>
2020-08-25 8:43 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-08-22 16:22 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2020-08-23 21:24 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-08-23 21:45 ` Leo Famulari
2020-08-24 0:11 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-08-28 13:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
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