From: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 52103-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52103: guix pull: guix-manual.drv' failed with exit code 1, In procedure copy-file: Permission denied
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:24:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl1fxylj.fsf@cbaines.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgp3z0p2.fsf@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> Ah yes, that looks like a problem: “doc”, which is taken straight from
>>> the checkout, normally does not contain *.LANG.texi; those files are not
>>> checked in.
>>>
>>> Could it be that ~/.cache/guix/checkouts contains a non-pristine
>>> checkout of Guix with that extra file?
>>
>> That looks like the issue.
>
> Ah, good to know.
>
> [...]
>
>> That outputs 259 other files as well. Maybe it's worth running git clean
>> on the cache directory, or only pulling files in from the cache
>> directory if they're tracked by git.
>
> (guix git) does a hard reset in ‘switch-to-ref’, which is normally
> enough as long as the user doesn’t manually fiddle with the checkout.
>
> Should we add something there?
I don't know enough about these Git operations, but I guess that's
probably fine if things happen normally. I do wonder if it's possible to
get in to states where there are some untracked files left around if
operations are cancelled or stop part way though.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-17 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-25 8:49 bug#52103: guix pull: guix-manual.drv' failed with exit code 1, In procedure copy-file: Permission denied Christopher Baines
2021-12-10 13:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-12-11 9:53 ` Christopher Baines
2021-12-12 21:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-12-12 22:19 ` Christopher Baines
2021-12-14 15:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-12-17 11:24 ` Christopher Baines [this message]
2021-12-17 15:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
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