From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:19:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761n4mzvu.fsf@yeeloong.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874n2oubuq.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sun, 23 Mar 2014 17:19:09 +0100")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> The 'bash' in the glibc package is handicapped in at least two ways:
>>
>> * It can't set the locale, because it looks for locales in
>> /nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.18-locales
>>
>> * It can't look up anything from NSS, such as passwd data, because it
>> tries to load the modules from
>> /nix/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.18
>>
>> There are two problems that need to be addressed, I think:
>>
>> * Users could easily end up with this handicapped 'bash' as their
>> primary bash, if they installed (or upgraded?) 'glibc' since the last
>> time I installed 'bash'. This happened to me, for example.
>
> I realized that this particular problem is easily solved by moving
> glibc’s bash away from $bindir, for instance to $libexecdir.
>
> I’m trying it out locally, and plan to commit to core-updates if
> everything works as expected (hopefully as the last core-updates
> change.)
>
> Thoughts?
Hmm. We need a more intelligent union.scm anyway, and that would solve
this problem and many others. Therefore, I'd be inclined to avoid
making this change, and instead work on union.scm. I want to optimize
it anyway, since it takes over 5 minutes to build my profile, which is a
bit painful.
I confess that I'm biased, because it would mean throwing away most of
the core-updates build outputs my YeeLoong 8101B has produced over the
last four days, and starting again from scratch :-(
So perhaps I should recuse myself from this decision.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-23 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-12 7:12 Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package Mark H Weaver
2014-02-12 13:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-02-12 17:39 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-02-12 19:31 ` Andreas Enge
2014-02-12 20:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-02-12 21:33 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-02-13 9:14 ` Andreas Enge
2014-03-23 16:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-23 20:19 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2014-03-23 20:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-24 3:31 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-28 13:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-24 3:55 ` Optimizing union.scm Mark H Weaver
2014-03-24 13:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-25 7:04 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-25 17:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-25 22:30 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-25 22:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-03-27 7:09 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-27 9:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-02 14:14 ` Optimizing ‘guix package’ Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-02 16:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-03-26 23:29 ` Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package Ludovic Courtès
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