bug#21101: Binary installation clobbers root ownership

2015-07-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
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

2015-07-21 Thread Dave Love
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