bug#21108: Home directory not created for new users

Following up on the thread from guix-devel: On 0.8.3-pre, after a clean install, users listed in the system configuration file do not have a home directory automatically created for them in some circumstances. This causes the us

bug#21101: Binary installation clobbers root ownership

Dave Love skribis: > If you unpack guix-binary-0.8.2.x86_64-linux.tar.xz according to the > manual instructions in "Binary installation", you clobber the ownership > of /, /root, and /var. > > The tarball needs to unpack with root ownership. While you can use > --no-same-owner, the current behav

bug#21101: Binary installation clobbers root ownership

If you unpack guix-binary-0.8.2.x86_64-linux.tar.xz according to the manual instructions in "Binary installation", you clobber the ownership of /, /root, and /var. The tarball needs to unpack with root ownership. While you can use --no-same-owner, the current behaviour is pretty unfriendly. (I n