Hi Maxime,

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022, 8:41 AM Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:

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> During "guix system reconfigure", there is now window where the
> directory temporarily has incorrect bits and hence if gitolite is
> restarted during that time it will presumably fail.  Could a
> 'home-permission-bits' or such field be added instead to <user-account>
> to make things atomic?
>

That would be a nice improvement to backlog now that such a use case has
emerged. However, I think for our immediate needs this one line patch,
while imperfect, solves a longstanding problem adequately. So how about
merging it, closing this bug, and opening a new bug for the system level
improvement?

- Dave

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