From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: ngraves@ngraves.fr
Cc: 74872-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74872: bugfix: update symlinks
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:03:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zfkm6zuh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f00e019e47cc41d4c85a524908d63aa@ngraves.fr> (ngraves@ngraves.fr's message of "Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:49:51 +0100")
ngraves@ngraves.fr skribis:
> For some reason, rename-file fails when the target and destination are
> not in the same filesystem. However, we can't assume for the
> update-symlink script that all users will always have
> e.g. ~/.local/share/applications (managed by guix-home) and ~ on the
> same filesystem. My use-case is trying to implement home
> impermanence. The patch is attached.
>
> From fe07066b88556c3755db3fc29665ce93d23cc071 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Nicolas Graves <ngraves@ngraves.fr>
> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:38:14 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: home: Replace rename in update-symlinks scripts.
>
> * gnu/home/services/symlink-manager.scm (update-symlinks): Use
> copy-file and delete-file instead of rename-file to avoid an error
> when the target and backup are not in the same filesystem.
Applied, thanks!
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2024-12-14 16:49 [bug#74872] bugfix: update symlinks ngraves--- via Guix-patches via
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