bug#21209: /gnu/store should be able to be a symlink, but it can't

2015-08-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Kragen Javier Sitaker skribis: > Apparently I can’t make /gnu/store a symlink: > > : user@debian:~/pkgs/guix-0.8.1; time /usr/local/bin/guix pull > guix pull: error: build failed: `/gnu/store' is not a directory > > real 0m0.431s > user 0m0.104s > sys 0m0.036s

bug#21209: /gnu/store should be able to be a symlink, but it can't

2015-08-08 Thread Pjotr Prins
it is by design that you can't symlink. On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 06:51:17AM +0200, Claes Wallin wrote: >Not commenting on the underlying problem, but on your workaround. > >On 07-Aug-2015 11:22 pm, "Kragen Javier Sitaker" <[1]kra...@canonical.org> >wrote: >> >> Apparently I can

bug#21209: /gnu/store should be able to be a symlink, but it can't

2015-08-08 Thread Kragen Javier Sitaker
On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > it is by design that you can't symlink. If that is true (and it seems like a rather strange design; why would somebody want that?) I think that the error message should explain that rather than simply complaining that /gnu/store is "no

bug#21209: /gnu/store should be able to be a symlink, but it can't

2015-08-07 Thread 韋嘉誠
Not commenting on the underlying problem, but on your workaround. On 07-Aug-2015 11:22 pm, "Kragen Javier Sitaker" wrote: > > Apparently I can’t make /gnu/store a symlink: [ . . . ] > I’m working around that by directly mounting the /gnustore partition > under /gnu/store now. [ . . . ] >

bug#21209: /gnu/store should be able to be a symlink, but it can't

2015-08-07 Thread Kragen Javier Sitaker
Apparently I can’t make /gnu/store a symlink: : user@debian:~/pkgs/guix-0.8.1; time /usr/local/bin/guix pull guix pull: error: build failed: `/gnu/store' is not a directory real0m0.431s user0m0.104s sys 0m0.036s : user@debian:~/pkgs/guix-0.8.1; ls -l /gnu/s