From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: permission denied: /gnu/store/...guile...
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 00:28:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw0vc4jv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878ucfmf8t.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sat, 23 May 2015 12:26:58 -0400")
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
[...]
> I would suggest using (geteuid) instead. Also, we should set the mode.
> In this particular case, if we had changed the owner without also
> changing the mode, rekado's system still would have been quite broken.
Good points. I have taken these into accounts and committed as 4a35a86.
>> I wonder if the activation code shouldn’t systematically do
>> (chown "/" 0 0) as well.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I'm not sure. Trying to fix individual things during activation that
> might have been broken is a slippery slope. We cannot hope to fix
> everything that might have been broken using this approach, and on the
> other hand we might undo some change that the user made intentionally.
Yeah, makes sense to me.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-23 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-20 7:06 permission denied: /gnu/store/...guile rekado
2015-05-20 8:17 ` Andreas Enge
2015-05-20 11:24 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-05-20 12:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-20 13:12 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-05-20 17:24 ` Alex Kost
2015-05-21 20:40 ` Synaptics & libinput driver Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-20 12:18 ` permission denied: /gnu/store/...guile Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-20 20:56 ` rekado
2015-05-21 8:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-22 20:15 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-05-22 20:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-05-23 9:41 ` rekado
2015-05-23 14:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-23 16:26 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-05-23 22:28 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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2015-05-21 20:06 rekado
2015-05-21 21:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-22 8:33 ` rekado
2015-05-22 13:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
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