On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 07:14:04PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > - The tarball also contains /, /root and /var. When unpacking it, the owner > > and permissions are changed on the system. > No. Maybe we can fix it by using two tar invocations with different > --owner.
Hm. Then maybe the documentation should suggest the following? cd /tmp tar xf ... chmod ... (optional if we have the correct owners in the tarball) mv root/.guix-profile /root mv var/guix /var mv /gnu / This would also mean that the user does not need to put so much trust into us that the tarball does not replace vital parts of the system... > > Another point, which might simply lead to modifications in the > > documentation: > OK, patch welcome. :-) Sure, as soon as the final approach is fixed. > A couple of days earlier would have been even better, but thanks for the > detailed feedback! ;-) I thought it would avoid me to update the system immediately afterwards again if I waited for 0.8.2 :-) Actually, we have not yet tried how this installation method interacts with "guix pull". Andreas
