Maxime Devos <maximede...@telenet.be> writes:
Not sure how a case-insensitivity would cause this, but I think
we
can keep this open -- wouldn't it be better if "guix-daemon"
just says
‘nope, case-sensitivity is required (*), not continuing)?
(*) For reproducible builds, and apparently for substitution.
The issue is wide-spread: there are a number of packages that will
install files who’s names only vary by case. It’s also
per-package; most work fine, but some will just break
randomly. Some don’t seem to break until you try to use them, and
then they yell and complain. This is something I run into often
enough that it’s familiar to me and know how to fix, but not often
enough to prevent my surprise when it happens.
Guix can’t fix it, unfortunately. Maybe checking case sensitivity
would be a worthwhile thing to do, just to warn people, but: I
don’t know of a good way to check this in a file-system
independent manner, and I honestly doubt it’s something that
actually happens that often. I’ve been trucking a ZFS storage pool
around since I first installed it on macOS about a decade ago, and
since macOS is case-insensitive, that’s how it was installed (case
sensitivity causes its own issues there). Short of running Guix on
Windows or macOS, I don’t see this being a problem.
-bjc
