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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: bug#29519: ./pre-inst-env: substitute: Failed to autoload
	make-session in (gnutls)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:54:49 +0100
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To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
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Heya,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 04:40:30PM -0200, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote:
>> 2017-12-04T10:07:40+0100 Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > The problem is that the (gnutls) module is not in the search path of
>> > =E2=80=98guix substitute=E2=80=99.
>> >
>> > Usually the solution is to start the daemon using something like:
>> >
>> >   sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon =E2=80=A6
>> >
>> > so that =E2=80=98guix-daemon=E2=80=99 inherits the correct values for =
=E2=80=98GUILE_LOAD_PATH=E2=80=99,
>> > etc.
>> >
>> > Does that work for you?
>> >
>> > We used to have this suggestion in the doc, but it was reverted in
>> > commit 73a203450d21241eca50375aeb26fb418b287414.  Leo, do you think we
>> > can reinstate it?  I=E2=80=99m not sure why it was reverted in the fir=
st place.
>
> I missed this request previously :/
>
> Originally, I reverted the suggestion because it was causing problems
> for some users on #guix, and I thought it was risky to propagate the
> user's environment into a privileged context.
>
> But perhaps it's not any more risky than using sudo, in general.
>
> Ludo, please let me know if you'd still like me to reinstate the advice
> to use `sudo -E`.

I think you can reinstate it, perhaps with a word of caution explaining
what -E does?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.