On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 06:50:42PM +0000, Phil Beadling wrote: > As of last night my Guix installation (on Ubuntu) is giving the following > error when trying to fetch a URL as part of the 'guix build'. The error > does not happen when downloading the same package using 'guix download': > > *guix build: error: directory `/homeless-shelter' exists; please remove it * > > It seems to make no difference what the package or or where the URL is > fetched from, I can demonstrate it with any arbitrary file on any website > I've tried so far. > > However, if I use 'guix download' I am able to download the package, and > then 'guix build' works as planned, using the copy stored by 'guix > download'. > > Can anyone point to where I might look to delete the homeless-shelter - or > if this is perhaps a misleading error message?
So, does /homeless-shelter exist on your filesystem? For example: $ ls -l /homeless-shelter ls: cannot access '/homeless-shelter': No such file or directory If it does, that's surprising.
