From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: bug#23970: colordiff glitch Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:10:04 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47000) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNJsW-0002B0-RQ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:07:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNJsU-00074z-SG for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:07:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:36851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNJsU-00074u-Oi for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:07:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bNJsU-0000ve-JF for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:07:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNGBD-0001Lr-Nw for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 05:10:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNGBB-0003j1-MQ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 05:10:06 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22c]:36441) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNGBB-0003ib-IC for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 05:10:05 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id 82so37799369qko.3 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 02:10:05 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 23970@debbugs.gnu.org during "guix package -i colordiff" I saw this error being reported: cp colordiffrc /gnu/store/gc9vqsz0jzylcdsik0hmnghiff1kf3am-colordiff-1.0.16= /etc/colordiffrc chown root.root /gnu/store/gc9vqsz0jzylcdsik0hmnghiff1kf3am-colordiff-1.0.16/etc/colordiffr= c chown: invalid user: =E2=80=98root.root=E2=80=99 Makefile:24: recipe for target 'install' failed make: [install] Error 1 (ignored) chmod 644 /gnu/store/gc9vqsz0jzylcdsik0hmnghiff1kf3am-colordiff-1.0.16/etc/= colordiffrc phase `install' succeeded after 0.1 seconds But it looks like it is harmless (at least from the guix install PoV) vince@guixsd ~/guix-packages$ l /gnu/store/gc9vqsz0jzylcdsik0hmnghiff1kf3am-colordiff-1.0.16/etc/ total 4.0K -r--r--r-- 2 root guixbuild 963 Jan 1 1970 colordiffrc This leaks the guixbuild group into /gnu/store, but it is not alone in doing so... If I try to do it manually afterwards, it obviously tell me the FS is R/O root@guixsd /tmp# chown root.root /gnu/store/*colordiff*/etc/* chown: changing ownership of =E2=80=98/gnu/store/gc9vqsz0jzylcdsik0hmnghiff1kf3am-colordiff-1.0.16/etc/c= olordiffrc=E2=80=99: Read-only file system --=20 Vincent Legoll