Hello, Vincent Legoll <vincent.leg...@gmail.com> skribis:
> 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/colordiffrc > chown: invalid user: ‘root.root’ > 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) It’s indeed harmless and fine. > 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 > ‘/gnu/store/gc9vqsz0jzylcdsik0hmnghiff1kf3am-colordiff-1.0.16/etc/colordiffrc’: > Read-only file system Right, /gnu/store is meant to be read-only and manually modifying it voids your warranty. :-) https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/The-Store.html For this reason, /gnu/store is a read-only bind-mount on GuixSD. That files in /gnu/store have group ‘guixbuild’ is innocuous. I hope this clarifies things! Ludo’.
