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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: 25213-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25213: Character encoding issue causing broken symlinks for profile generation
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:04:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8bv3ivx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bb403f5-f6a4-b497-9cc8-21b007f308ed@cbaines.net> (Christopher Baines's message of "Thu, 15 Dec 2016 21:23:56 +0000")

Hello Christopher,

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

> The profile generation/union code generates broken symlinks. I've
> reproduced this on 2 different machines (both Debian running Guix).
>
> To reproduce, run:
>
>   guix environment --pure --container --ad-hoc nss-certs findutils
> coreutils
>
> [env]# find $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT/etc/ssl/certs -xtype l -exec head {} \;
>
> head: cannot open
> '/gnu/store/g41lycan2cq74qfs6acsxmxk4c4ra0pd-profile/etc/ssl/certs/Certinomis_-_Autorit??_Racine:2.1.1.pem'
> for reading: No such file or directory

If we can’t have French root authority certificates, we definitely have
a problem.  ;-)

Fixed in commit 1af0860e8be81c01ad405c1226d6bc4516e62863.

Commit 580deec5b44d623e994e59ef07e9e0c5496762fd has the download code
ignore dangling symlinks.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-16 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-15 21:23 bug#25213: Character encoding issue causing broken symlinks for profile generation Christopher Baines
2016-12-16  0:30 ` Leo Famulari
2016-12-16 17:04 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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