Re: Guix binary tarball

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2015-06-07 19:14 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Thomas Schwinge <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> I'm not a fan of extracting tarballs inside populated directories; so I'm
>>> in favor on the suggested change to extract inside a temporary directory,
>>> and then move everything in place as a separate step.
>>
>> OK.  I had come to the conclusion that yes, doing it in two steps is
>> reasonable, but it’s the user’s choice, and I wondered whether
>> describing the additional steps in the manual would make things look
>> more complicated than they are.  WDYT?
>
> I agree with Thomas.  I believe it would be better to split this step.
> (OTOH a user who installs Guix should probably know what to do with a
> tarball without additional documentation)

Done in 5dc4296.

>>> It's very common, but I don't think there's a hard requirement for the
>>> root user's home directory to be /root.  Maybe instead of shipping it in
>>> the tarball, the symbolic link should be created by an explicit command?
>>>
>>>     $ sudo ln -sf /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile 
>>> ~root/.guix-profile
>>
>> Yes, why not.  What do people think?
>
> I totally agree, I think there is no need to put "/root" into the
> tarball, and to add this step instead.

Done in 7acd343.

Thanks!

Ludo’.