git-annex-5.20150731: setup: /home/stackage/.local: permission denied

[juhp]

Not quite sure what is happening but latest git-annex is failing with:

:
[512 of 512] Compiling Main             ( git-annex.hs, dist/build/git-annex/git-annex-tmp/Main.o )
Linking dist/build/git-annex/git-annex ...
Installing executable(s) in /home/stackage/work/builds/nightly/bin
setup: /home/stackage/.local: permission denied

cc Joey Hess id@joeyh.name

[peti]

Does $HOME point to to a writable directory when those builds are run? In NixOS, we set

export HOME=$TEMPDIR

for this particular build. It would be great to make some progress with this issue; git-annex is an important package, and the version currently found in Stackage is quite old already.

[peti]

Cc: @joeyh

[joeyh]

I was able to replicate this with a ~/.config that was not writable. Will skip installing desktop autostart etc files in this case.

[peti]

Also, git-annex-5.20150731 is broken in Stackage Nightly (on NixOS) because of the aws-0.13.0 update: http://hydra.cryp.to/build/1346530/log/raw. I suppose we have to (a) downgrade aws or (b) upgrade git-annex to avoid that issue.

[joeyh]

Aside:

@peti as for NixOS, I think you would be better served building git-annex using its Makefile. There's an install target in there that respects DESTDIR in the usual way, and so you can get the whole FHS filesystem tree, including files in /etc and then use that for you package in whatever ways make sense for NixOS. That will get a higher level of integration for the git-annex webapp than the cabal install to temp dir approach currently is capable of.

[joeyh]

The aws-0.13.0 update was dealt with in yesterday's release of git-annex.

Does something specific have to be done to make stackage nightly include a new version of git-annex? I had sorta assumed new versions would be added automatically when dependencies allowed.

[snoyberg]

@juhp put in an upper bound in a151596 due to this issue. I can remove that upper bound now that the issue has been resolved (can you confirm that the fix is on Hackage?).

[joeyh]

The fix for the permission denied problem isn't on hackage yet. Did that problem somehow break normal uses of stack install? I don't see how it could..

[snoyberg]

It broke the Stackage build server itself. How long until the fix is on Hackage?

[joeyh]

Ah, ok. That justifies an immediate point release I'll say. Uploaded 5.20151102.1 just now.

In future, is there some way I could be informed of git-annex related bugs in stackage? I did not see this until I was pinged.

[peti]

@joeyh, you could add your Github nick to https://github.com/fpco/stackage/blob/master/build-constraints.yaml#L575 to ensure you'll be notified about open issues.

[snoyberg]

It looks like this upper bound has been resolved, closing.