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From: "Wiktor Żelazny" <wz@freeshell.de>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ./pre-inst-env guix build dangerous inside an environment?
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:45:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190912154556.5obvq3u7xeczcpgy@wz.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tv9ipqo2.fsf@elephly.net>

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On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 09:40:45PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:

> I think this failure mode is pretty terrible and I’m really sorry
> that you encountered it.

At least I learned something about Guix workings. The system is back.
This time, I completed 14.2 without a disaster.

> I wonder if the daemon should just abort with an error when it
> encounters an unknown directory. The problem with that is that
> sometimes directories are left behind when the daemon was forcibly
> killed, and we want those to be cleaned up automatically.

rm -i
cp -i
mv -i

from the shell world come to my mind. Or some --dry-run mode.

> (and an environment to provide the required dependencies to work with
> it)

I guess I need to learn more about Guix environments.

WŻ

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      reply	other threads:[~2019-09-12 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-10 13:58 ./pre-inst-env guix build dangerous inside an environment? Wiktor Żelazny
2019-09-10 14:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-11 16:18   ` Wiktor Żelazny
2019-09-11 19:40     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-12 15:45       ` Wiktor Żelazny [this message]

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