Re: Guix binary tarball

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> 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?

Sorry I was referring to the implementation, not to the extraction.

>> 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 :-)

Heh.  :-)

> Actually, we have not yet tried how this installation method interacts
> with "guix pull".

It shouldn’t make any difference.

Thanks,
Ludo’.