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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 58084@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58084: guix deploy fails, leaving the newly installed system generation active
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:48:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a66myqlg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h70uyqoj.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:46:20 -0400")

Hello again,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

>> … which is fine, except that there was already a pre-existing
>> /etc/modprobe.d directory (coming from openSuSE, the distro that was
>> initially installed on this machine), which caused this activation code
>> to break:
>
> Oh wow! Should we be extra careful and always rm files before linking to
> their location?  Or define our own 'symlink' procedure that'd take care
> of it?  That's not very elegant but better than obscure crashes like
> this.

I just had a better idea: fail and report that an unexpected file was
found there, leaving the user to inspect it and choose a proper action.

Thanks,

Maxim




  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-26 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-26  2:37 bug#58084: guix deploy fails, leaving the newly installed system generation active Maxim Cournoyer
2022-09-26 15:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-09-26 17:46   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-09-26 17:48     ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2022-09-29 14:47       ` Ludovic Courtès

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