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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: Profile symlink error w. python
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 03:50:53 -0500
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To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
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On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 09:20:40AM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> I am hitting this problem:
> 
> guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix package -i python-2.7.10
> The following package will be installed:
>    python       2.7.10  /gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10
> 
> (...)
> 
>      ?: 4 [hash-for-each #<procedure 155d9f0 at ./guix/build/union.scm:141:21 (file dirs-with-file)> ...]
>   In ./guix/build/union.scm:
>    108: 3 [union "/gnu/store/251b1fh9rsmfzry523xi4fb7w4j7x2af-profile/share/man/man1/python.1" ...]
>   In unknown file:
>      ?: 2 [partition #<procedure file-is-directory? (file)> #]
>   In ./guix/build/union.scm:
>     49: 1 [file-is-directory? "/gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/python.1"]
>   In unknown file:
>      ?: 0 [stat "/gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/python.1" ...]
> 
>   ERROR: In procedure stat:
>   ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory: "/gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/python.1"
>   builder for `/gnu/store/m3lfvp9sby8yx9i7np0wv16i7kj7bc51-profile.drv' failed with exit code 1
>   guix package: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/m3lfvp9sby8yx9i7np0wv16i7kj7bc51-profile.drv' failed
> 
> the symlink points to a symlink:
> 
> ls -l /gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/*
> lrwxrwxrwx 6 kranz root   12 Jan  1  1970 /gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/python.1 -> python2.1.gz
> lrwxrwxrwx 6 kranz root   14 Jan  1  1970 /gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/python2.1 -> python2.7.1.gz
> -r--r--r-- 6 kranz root 5620 Jan  1  1970 /gnu/store/4bs4mx6xyx0jx9827vmmbxyhjln7cmcv-python-2.7.10/share/man/man1/python2.7.1.gz

It looks like python.1 points to a non-existent file (python2.1.gz
instead of python2.1).

Is this our bug or do other distros have to work around it too?