bug#47841: [release 1.2.1] could not install on foreign distro

bug#47841: [release 1.2.1] could not install on foreign distro

[Julien Lepiller]

Hi Guix!

I tried using the latest tarball to install guix, by modifying the
current script. To do that, I downloaded the latest installation script
from savannah and modified it a bit:

In guix_get_bin, I removed the tar.xz extension and the download of the
signature. I also commented out the verification with gpg.

In main, I commented out the call to guix_get_bin_list and replace the
call to guix_get_bin with

guix_get_bin "https://ci.guix.gnu.org/download/" "114" "$tmp_path"

(114 being obtained by looking at the latest build of the tarball:
https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/tarball).

After these changes, I was able to run:

sudo -i $HOME/guix-install.sh

which initially asked me to get the key, then managed to download the
tarball, but failed like so:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
Press return to continue...
Starting installation (Sat Apr 17 08:59:36 AM EDT 2021)
[ PASS ] verification of required commands completed
[ INFO ] init system is: systemd
[ WARN ] We recommend installing and/or starting your distribution
'nscd' service
[ WARN ] Please read 'info guix "Application Setup"' about "Name
Service Switch"
[ INFO ] system is x86_64-linux
[ INFO ] Downloading Guix release archive 114
100%[===================>]  85.11M  4.27MB/s in 19s  
[ PASS ] download completed.
[ PASS ] unpacked archive
[ INFO ] Installing /var/guix and /gnu...
[ INFO ] Linking the root user's profile
/home/roptat/guix-install.sh: line 317:
/root/.config/guix/current/etc/profile: No such file or directory

Indeed, the tarball only has the following in var/guix:

/var/guix/
/var/guix/db/
/var/guix/db/db.sqlite
/var/guix/gcroots/
/var/guix/gcroots/profiles
/var/guix/profiles/
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile-1-link


whereas the release (1.2.0) tarball contains:

/var/guix/
/var/guix/db/
/var/guix/db/db.sqlite
/var/guix/gcroots/
/var/guix/gcroots/profiles
/var/guix/profiles/
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-1-link

Note guix-profile <> current-guix

The manual still suggests to create a symlink to
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix and source the profile
from it.

bug#47841: 'tarball' jobs on ci.guix.gnu.org install the wrong profile

[Leo Famulari]

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On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 03:29:27PM +0200, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> (114 being obtained by looking at the latest build of the tarball:
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/tarball).
[...]
> /root/.config/guix/current/etc/profile: No such file or directory

I built the tarball as it's done by `make release` [0]:

`./pre-inst-env guix pack -C xz --fallback -s x86_64-linux --localstatedir --profile-name=current-guix guix`

And, this tarball seems right:

------
var/guix
var/guix/db
var/guix/db/db.sqlite
var/guix/gcroots
var/guix/gcroots/profiles
var/guix/profiles
var/guix/profiles/per-user
var/guix/profiles/per-user/root
var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix
var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-1-link
------

So, I guess that the CI job for these tarballs needs to be adjusted.

I'm going to test installing with this tarball in a Debian ISO now.

[0] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/Makefile.am?id=b18f45c21f5d697d384a7bd5c9d3ee314bba9e35#n739

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bug#47841: [release 1.2.1] could not install on foreign distro

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 03:29:27PM +0200, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> I tried using the latest tarball to install guix, by modifying the
> current script. To do that, I downloaded the latest installation script
> from savannah and modified it a bit:
> 
> In guix_get_bin, I removed the tar.xz extension and the download of the
> signature. I also commented out the verification with gpg.
> 
> In main, I commented out the call to guix_get_bin_list and replace the
> call to guix_get_bin with
> 
> guix_get_bin "https://ci.guix.gnu.org/download/" "114" "$tmp_path"
> 
> (114 being obtained by looking at the latest build of the tarball:
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/tarball).

Can you share your diff? I tried to alter guix-install.sh to download
the tarball I built from my server, but it's easier said than done.

bug#47841: 'tarball' jobs on ci.guix.gnu.org install the wrong profile

[Leo Famulari]

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On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 02:59:23PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> I'm going to test installing with this tarball in a Debian ISO now.

I installed "by hand" using this tarball, and it worked fine.

Since this bug is really about a broken CI job, and not the release
artifacts, I'm removing it from the list of release blockers.

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bug#47841: [release 1.2.1] could not install on foreign distro

[Leo Famulari]

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On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 03:22:37PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> Can you share your diff? I tried to alter guix-install.sh to download
> the tarball I built from my server, but it's easier said than done.

Julien shared a diff on #guix, and I adapted it a bit, as attached.

I named the binary tarball that I built 'guix-binary-0.tar.xz', so if
you choose another name, adjust guix-install.sh appropriately.

And of course, change the URL used in the invocation of guix_get_bin().
The example.com URL will not work.

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--- guix-install.sh.bak	2021-04-17 16:54:16.653305552 -0400
+++ guix-install.sh	2021-04-17 17:53:30.704684525 -0400
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@
 
     wget --help | grep -q '\--show-progress' && \
         _PROGRESS_OPT="-q --show-progress" || _PROGRESS_OPT=""
-    wget $_PROGRESS_OPT -P "$dl_path" "${url}/${bin_ver}.tar.xz" "${url}/${bin_ver}.tar.xz.sig"
+    wget $_PROGRESS_OPT -P "$dl_path" "${url}/${bin_ver}.tar.xz"
 
     if [[ "$?" -eq 0 ]]; then
        _msg "${PAS}download completed."
@@ -276,15 +276,15 @@
         exit 1
     fi
 
-    pushd "${dl_path}" >/dev/null
-    gpg --verify "${bin_ver}.tar.xz.sig" >/dev/null 2>&1
-    if [[ "$?" -eq 0 ]]; then
-        _msg "${PAS}Signature is valid."
-        popd >/dev/null
-    else
-        _err "${ERR}could not verify the signature."
-        exit 1
-    fi
+#    pushd "${dl_path}" >/dev/null
+#    gpg --verify "${bin_ver}.tar.xz.sig" >/dev/null 2>&1
+#    if [[ "$?" -eq 0 ]]; then
+#        _msg "${PAS}Signature is valid."
+#        popd >/dev/null
+#    else
+#        _err "${ERR}could not verify the signature."
+#        exit 1
+#    fi
 }
 
 sys_create_store()
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
 
     cd "$tmp_path"
     tar --extract \
-        --file "$pkg" &&
+        --file "guix-binary-0.tar.xz" &&
     _msg "${PAS}unpacked archive"
 
     if [[ -e "/var/guix" || -e "/gnu" ]]; then
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@
 
     chk_term
     chk_require "${REQUIRE[@]}"
-    chk_gpg_keyring
+#    chk_gpg_keyring
     chk_init_sys
     chk_sys_arch
     chk_sys_nscd
@@ -554,8 +554,9 @@
     umask 0022
     tmp_path="$(mktemp -t -d guix.XXX)"
 
-    guix_get_bin_list "${GNU_URL}"
-    guix_get_bin "${GNU_URL}" "${BIN_VER}" "$tmp_path"
+#    guix_get_bin_list "${GNU_URL}"
+#    guix_get_bin "${GNU_URL}" "${BIN_VER}" "$tmp_path"
+    guix_get_bin "https://example.com" "guix-binary-0" "$tmp_path"
 
     sys_create_store "${BIN_VER}.tar.xz" "${tmp_path}"
     sys_create_build_user

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bug#47841: 'tarball' jobs on ci.guix.gnu.org install the wrong profile

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hello,

> I installed "by hand" using this tarball, and it worked fine.
>
> Since this bug is really about a broken CI job, and not the release
> artifacts, I'm removing it from the list of release blockers.

There's indeed a discrepancy between the Makefile and the (gnu ci)
release job. I'm testing this fix right now: 68a11045.

Thanks,

Mathieu

bug#47841: guix foreign installer

[Vincent Legoll]

Hello,

there's a few enhancements to the installer
script waiting for review, comments and/or
merge there:

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40601

That may make the kind of testing you've
done here easier.

The separate commits should be fairly
orthogonal and cherry-pickable independently.

I can resume working on those if there's
consensus about their usefulness.

Those patches also would probably help setting
up CI testing jobs to catch problems earlier in the release cycle.

Thanks

-- 
Vincent Legoll

bug#47841: 'tarball' jobs on ci.guix.gnu.org install the wrong profile

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 09:36:29AM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > I installed "by hand" using this tarball, and it worked fine.
> >
> > Since this bug is really about a broken CI job, and not the release
> > artifacts, I'm removing it from the list of release blockers.
> 
> There's indeed a discrepancy between the Makefile and the (gnu ci)
> release job. I'm testing this fix right now: 68a11045.

Okay, thanks! By the way, what is that '68a11045'? If it's a Git commit,
I can't figure out where it is.

bug#47841: 'tarball' jobs on ci.guix.gnu.org install the wrong profile

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hey,

> Okay, thanks! By the way, what is that '68a11045'? If it's a Git commit,
> I can't figure out where it is.

Yeah, but it disappeared when I removed the wip branch. I pushed it on
master: 2ccb715ab3ebef5ddbc53d706cbc42b3b765d613.

I tried to install a CI produced tarball
(https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/213975/details) on a foreign distribution
VM with success.

Closing this one,

Thanks,

Mathieu