From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: ludo@gnu.org, 60068@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#60068] [PATCH 1/2] guix-install.sh: Add GUIX_ALLOW_OVERWRITE environment variable.
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 23:36:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt5unj10.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgbp3ksd.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:25:06 -0500")
Hi Tobias and Ludovic,
Had you seen my reply below? It seems you had perhaps misunderstood the
use case at hand?
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Tobias,
>
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:
>
>> Hi Maxim,
>>
>> Nice! More steps towards world domination.
>
> Eh :-)
>
>> Maxim Cournoyer 写道:
>>> +# Environment variables
>>
>> These sound like they should be command-line arguments.
>
> I agree, but that'd require a loop, or GNU getopt, and I'm not motivated
> enough in the moment to re-design it :-). When we get there, we could
> add an --uninstall option too.
>
>> […]
>>
>> Actually, I'm not totally sold on GUIX_ALLOW_OVERWRITE. It's not
>> solving much a problem.
>
> The problem it solves for me was that I needed to use 'guix pack'd
> dependencies such as gpg, glibc for getent, and shadow's
> groupadd/useradd, etc. to satisfy the install script dependencies on my
> weird target OS (minimal busybox embedded OS); which are needed to be
> unpacked under /gnu, thus conflicting with the requirement that /gnu
> doesn't exist.
>
> I tried a relocatable pack, but it didn't work, at least for gpg (file
> not found error).
--
Thanks,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-04 4:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-14 15:56 [bug#60068] [PATCH 1/2] guix-install.sh: Add GUIX_ALLOW_OVERWRITE environment variable Maxim Cournoyer
2022-12-14 15:56 ` [bug#60069] [PATCH 2/2] guix-install.sh: Directly exit in case of errors in chk_require Maxim Cournoyer
2022-12-14 16:37 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2022-12-14 18:17 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-12-14 18:33 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-12-14 16:16 ` [bug#60068] [PATCH 1/2] guix-install.sh: Add GUIX_ALLOW_OVERWRITE environment variable Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2022-12-14 18:25 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-02-04 4:36 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2022-12-14 20:46 ` [bug#60068] [PATCH v2 1/3] guix-install.sh: Add missing "useradd" command Maxim Cournoyer
2022-12-14 20:46 ` [bug#60068] [PATCH v2 2/3] guix-install.sh: Add GUIX_ALLOW_OVERWRITE environment variable Maxim Cournoyer
2022-12-15 14:43 ` [bug#60068] bug#60069: [PATCH 2/2] guix-install.sh: Directly exit in case of errors in chk_require Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-16 5:07 ` [bug#60069] " Maxim Cournoyer
2022-12-15 14:44 ` [bug#60068] bug#60069: " Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-14 20:46 ` [bug#60068] [PATCH v2 3/3] " Maxim Cournoyer
2022-12-15 14:41 ` [bug#60068] bug#60069: [PATCH 2/2] " Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-16 5:24 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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