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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-06-06 00:09:12 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-06-06 00:28:21 +0200
commite97c5be914864674d024dd088eb1f2788ac49f46 (patch)
treeb18a5aeaae41dac7211e1d30cb384197f9dabb63
parentc6b76405ffedae1649f3ed68717c70c7f2443347 (diff)
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services: Use a fixed GID for the build group and use that for the store.
This partly reverts commit 185f669 ("services: Make sure the store's group is the build group.") * gnu/services/base.scm (guix-service)[activate]: Remove 'chown' call. Add 'id' field to 'user-group' form. * guix/build/install.scm (directives): Set the store's GID to 30000.
-rw-r--r--gnu/services/base.scm21
-rw-r--r--guix/build/install.scm6
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index 94fa919c0f..65a8ceefc4 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -369,16 +369,13 @@ When AUTHORIZE-HYDRA-KEY? is true, the hydra.gnu.org public key provided by
GUIX is authorized upon activation, meaning that substitutes from
hydra.gnu.org are used by default."
(define activate
- #~(begin
- ;; Make sure the store has BUILDER-GROUP as its group. This may fail
- ;; with EACCES when the store is a 9p mount, so catch exceptions.
- (false-if-exception
- (chown #$(%store-prefix) 0
- (group:gid (getgrnam #$builder-group))))
+ ;; Assume that the store has BUILDER-GROUP as its group. We could
+ ;; otherwise call 'chown' here, but the problem is that on a COW unionfs,
+ ;; chown leads to an entire copy of the tree, which is a bad idea.
- ;; Optionally authorize hydra.gnu.org's key.
- #$(and authorize-hydra-key?
- (hydra-key-authorization guix))))
+ ;; Optionally authorize hydra.gnu.org's key.
+ (and authorize-hydra-key?
+ (hydra-key-authorization guix)))
(mlet %store-monad ((accounts (guix-build-accounts build-accounts
#:group builder-group)))
@@ -395,7 +392,11 @@ hydra.gnu.org are used by default."
(user-groups (list (user-group
(name builder-group)
(members (map user-account-name
- user-accounts)))))
+ user-accounts))
+
+ ;; Use a fixed GID so that we can create the
+ ;; store with the right owner.
+ (id 30000))))
(activate activate)))))
(define %base-services
diff --git a/guix/build/install.scm b/guix/build/install.scm
index ea787b63e2..2a76394faa 100644
--- a/guix/build/install.scm
+++ b/guix/build/install.scm
@@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ directory TARGET."
(define (directives store)
"Return a list of directives to populate the root file system that will host
STORE."
- `(;; Note: The store's group is changed to the "guixbuild" group at
- ;; activation time.
- (directory ,store 0 0)
+ `(;; Note: the store's GID is fixed precisely so we can set it here rather
+ ;; than at activation time.
+ (directory ,store 0 30000)
(directory "/etc")
(directory "/var/log") ; for dmd