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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>,
	"Chris Marusich" <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: 30728@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30728: guix-install.sh doesn't work if run with "sudo"
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:18:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muyvjith.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efk79s81.fsf@lassieur.org>

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Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:
>>
>>> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> My system is Ubuntu 16.04.
>>>>
>>>> I ran './guix-install.sh' and got the message: "This script must be run
>>>> as root.".  So I ran 'sudo ./guix-install.sh' and got an error message
>>>> saying that:
>>>>
>>>>     GUIX_PROFILE="${HOME}/.guix-profile"
>>>>     source "${GUIX_PROFILE}/etc/profile"
>>>>
>>>> the 'source' command doesn't work because ${GUIX_PROFILE} was never
>>>> created, ${HOME} being /home/clement, not /root.
>>>>
>>>> To recover from this I had to manually delete /var/guix and /gnu, log as
>>>> root with 'su', and start again.
>>>>
>>>> Clément
>>>
>>> I believe the script should install Guix in the user's home directory,
>>> not in ~root.
>>
>> The manual says (see: (guix) Binary Installation):
>>
>>   3. Make ‘root’’s profile available under ‘~/.guix-profile’:
>>
>>           # ln -sf /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile \
>>                    ~root/.guix-profile
>
> I think the manual is wrong here.  This only makes sense if the user is
> 'root'.  Otherwise, the user would expect Guix to be installed in their
> home, not in root's home.  We could use the HOME and USER environment
> variables like this:
>
>   # ln -sf /var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER/guix-profile $HOME/.guix-profile
>
> Thus, even if 'sudo' decides to change these environment variables, it
> will still be consistent.

The binary installation tarball only comes with a profile for 'root'.
The problem is that the installation script assumes $HOME will expand to
~root when sourcing the profile, but as you found that isn't always the
case.

~root/.guix-profile is "hard-coded" many other places in the script, so
Tatianas solution seems sensible to me.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-26  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87zi3lh6mb.fsf@lassieur.org>
2018-03-23 13:20 ` bug#30728: guix-install.sh doesn't work if run with "sudo" Clément Lassieur
2018-03-25  5:16   ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-26  8:05     ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-26  9:18       ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2018-03-27  7:46       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-27  9:11         ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-27 16:08           ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-28 19:24             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-29  5:07               ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-29  8:26                 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-29  7:48               ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-29 10:07                 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-03-30 22:07                   ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-29  8:04             ` Clément Lassieur

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