From: jgart via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>,
51113@debbugs.gnu.org, 51424-done@debbugs.gnu.org,
Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: [bug#51113] bug#51424: snooze: malformed installation path
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:03:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211026200322.GB9051@gac.attlocal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6ivl8u0.fsf@nckx>
On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:13:47 +0200 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> Christopher, jgart, Nicolas,
>
> Christopher Howard 写道:
> > the path to the binary is malformed:
>
> Indeed it was.
>
> DESTDIR does not mean ‘final destination’; it's meant as a
> temporary install-time ‘staging’ directory whose contents are
> expected to move back to / later. For example, ‘make install
> DESTDIR=/tmp/my-package-manager-output && cd
> /tmp/my-package-manager-output && tar cf foo.pkg .’. Guix does
> not use this packaging method.
>
> Setting DESTDIR in Guix is almost always a bug. The few places in
> Guix where it is used are using it as a hack around buggy build
> systems. It just happens to work (because, well, the build
> system's buggy).
>
> Fixed in commit 89d8417b371f3918f0508bbc561675ec100a6add.
>
> Thanks!
>
> T G-R
> When reviewing patches, I find the ‘tree’ command very useful to
> immediately spot such weirdness. Much more so than ‘ls -R’.
> YMMV.
I use nnn or another file manager like broot sometimes but this one escaped me.
Thanks for fixing that. I was actually going to send a patch fix for it but had
not found the time. I noticed it after the patch was accepted.
Thanks!
all best,
jgart
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