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Misnamed directory in GuixSD |
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Sat, 20 Aug 2016 22:11:00 +0200 |
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Installing GuixSD 0.11.0 creates a directory called /nonexistent
Despite its name, it does actually exist.
I suggest that we rename it or delete it.
J'
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Re: bug#24275: Misnamed directory in GuixSD |
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Sun, 28 Aug 2016 15:48:25 +0200 |
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Hello!
Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:32 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> skribis:
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>>> I came with the attached patch, totally untested, probably wrong for some
>>> cases...
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> My patch was heuristic, so bound to be wrong sometimes...
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>> We currently lack a way to specify whether the home directory should be
>> created, which would be useful for ‘nobody’.
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> This is the alternative solution, specifying it, always right.
Yeah, that’s what I thought. It may be useful in other situations too.
>> So what about a patch along these lines instead? It adds a
>> ‘create-home-directory?’ field to <user-account> and sets it to #f for
>> ‘nobody’.
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> LGTM, but do I understand correctly: the default value being false, we
> will have to always specify the added param as true in system definitions ?
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> Why not the other way around, that would not need any modifications of
> current configs.
Oops, I meant it to be #t by default, of course. Good catch!
Pushed as commits eb56ee027b4c6b5682f69fa885d16e55c4495bd8 and
d03db7434b5b2f1e588c65805d38faea973c3cf0.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
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