To test it, you need to run the daemon from your checkout, with something like: sudo herd stop guix-daemon sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild & (Once we’ve applied the fix, we’ll have to update the ‘guix’ package.) I think we should eventually our ‘git’ package as discussed in , but that won’t help on foreign distros anyway, hence the fix above. WDYT? Ludo’.