From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Guix binary tarball Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 20:57:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87fv6ws646.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150515164602.GA13539@debian> <87382xwyoz.fsf@gnu.org> <20150516064744.GB6519@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35871) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YthGz-0002Rq-8s for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 May 2015 14:57:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YthGu-0000Wg-0R for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 May 2015 14:57:21 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56035) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YthGt-0000Wc-Tj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 May 2015 14:57:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150516064744.GB6519@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Sat, 16 May 2015 08:47:44 +0200") 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: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge skribis: > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 07:14:04PM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> > - The tarball also contains /, /root and /var. When unpacking it, the = owner >> > and permissions are changed on the system. >> No. Maybe we can fix it by using two tar invocations with different >> --owner. > > Hm. Then maybe the documentation should suggest the following? Sorry I was referring to the implementation, not to the extraction. >> A couple of days earlier would have been even better, but thanks for the >> detailed feedback! ;-) > > I thought it would avoid me to update the system immediately afterwards a= gain > if I waited for 0.8.2 :-) Heh. :-) > Actually, we have not yet tried how this installation method interacts > with "guix pull". It shouldn=E2=80=99t make any difference. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.