From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Guix binary tarball Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 18:46:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20150515164602.GA13539@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55380) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YtIkU-0002yt-2l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2015 12:46:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YtIkQ-0004vk-1V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2015 12:46:10 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.130]:62457) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YtIkP-0004vg-Oc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2015 12:46:05 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, we just set up guix 0.8.2 via the binary tarball on a machine at work, and experienced a few problems: - The files all have owner nixbld and group nixbld, whereas on my own machine, they are either both root (for /var/guix, /root and /store) or user root, group guix-builder (for /gnu/store). As that user and group do not exist on the target system, the numerical values 30000 and 30001 are used instead. Would it be possible to create the tarball with the correct file owner? One would then need to modify the documentation, since one needs to first create the guix-builder group and add root to it _before_ unpacking the tarball, so that the correct owner will be chosen instead of the numerical value. - The tarball also contains /, /root and /var. When unpacking it, the owner and permissions are changed on the system. As a consequence, we could not ssh into the machine any more (!). Could these directories be left out of the tarball and only their contents be kept in? Another point, which might simply lead to modifications in the documentation: - /root/.guix-profile does not need to be accessed by a normal user. I think that it is better to do # cd /usr/local/bin # ln -s /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix instead of # ln -s /root/.guix-profile/bin/guix This unravels one layer of symbolic links, and does not force to change the permissions of /root. Andreas