links not created on WSL2

[latipun7]

I run Ubuntu 20.04 on Windows Subsystem Linux 2 (WSL2).

I have install.conf.yaml like this:

- clean: ["~", "~/.config"]

- defaults:
    link:
      create: true
      relink: true
      force: true

- link:
    ~/.ansi-arts:
    ~/.bin: linux/bin
    ~/.config/neofetch: linux/neofetch
    ~/.gitconfig: linux/git/linux.gitconfig
    ~/.oh-my-zsh-custom: linux/oh-my-zsh
    ~/.p10k.zsh: linux/zsh/p10k.zsh
    ~/.zshrc: linux/zsh/zshrc.zsh
    ~/Brewfile: linux/linuxbrew/Brewfile

- create: [~/projects, ~/downloads]

- shell:
    - [git submodule sync --recursive, Synchronize the URLs of submodules]
    - [git submodule update --init --recursive, Update the submodules]

My dotfiles folder in /mnt/e/Projects/dotfiles.
When I run

cd /mnt/e/Projects/dotfiles
sudo ./install

it run without error with this logs:

[sudo] password for latipun7:
Link /root/Brewfile -> /mnt/e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/linuxbrew/Brewfile not removed.
Link /root/.gitconfig -> /mnt/e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/git/linux.gitconfig not removed.
Link /root/.bin -> /mnt/e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/bin not removed.
Link /root/.zshrc -> /mnt/e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/zsh/zshrc.zsh not removed.
Link /root/.p10k.zsh -> /mnt/e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/zsh/p10k.zsh not removed.
Link /root/.oh-my-zsh-custom -> /mnt/e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/oh-my-zsh not removed.
Link /root/.ansi-arts -> /mnt/e/Projects/dotfiles/ansi-arts not removed.
Link /root/.config/neofetch -> /mnt/e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/neofetch not removed.
All targets have been cleaned
Removing ~/.ansi-arts
Creating link ~/.ansi-arts -> /e/Projects/dotfiles/ansi-arts
Removing ~/.bin
Creating link ~/.bin -> /e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/bin
Removing ~/.config/neofetch
Creating link ~/.config/neofetch -> /e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/neofetch
Removing ~/.oh-my-zsh-custom
Creating link ~/.oh-my-zsh-custom -> /e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/oh-my-zsh
Removing ~/.p10k.zsh
Creating link ~/.p10k.zsh -> /e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/zsh/p10k.zsh
Removing ~/.zshrc
Creating link ~/.zshrc -> /e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/zsh/zshrc.zsh
Removing ~/Brewfile
Creating link ~/Brewfile -> /e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/linuxbrew/Brewfile
Removing ~/.gitconfig
Creating link ~/.gitconfig -> /e/Projects/dotfiles/linux/git/linux.gitconfig
All links have been set up
Path exists /root/projects
Path exists /root/downloads
All paths have been set up
Synchronize the URLs of submodules [git submodule sync --recursive]
Update the submodules [git submodule update --init --recursive]
All commands have been executed

==> All tasks executed successfully

But when I want to see the configuration with cat ~/.gitconfig, the file didn't exist. Then, when I list the directory of my home, all those files didn't exist. ls -la ~:

total 64
drwxr-xr-x 7 latipun7 latipun7 4096 May 28 23:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root     root     4096 May 28 20:15 ..
-rw------- 1 latipun7 latipun7 2108 May 29 05:51 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 latipun7 latipun7  220 May 28 20:15 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 latipun7 latipun7 3771 May 28 20:15 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 latipun7 latipun7 4096 May 28 20:15 .landscape
-rw-r--r-- 1 latipun7 latipun7    0 May 29 05:49 .motd_shown
-rw-r--r-- 1 latipun7 latipun7  807 May 28 20:15 .profile
-rw------- 1 latipun7 latipun7    5 May 28 22:07 .python_history
drwxr-xr-x 3 latipun7 latipun7 4096 May 28 22:22 .quokka
-rw-r--r-- 1 latipun7 latipun7    0 May 28 20:34 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxr-xr-x 5 latipun7 latipun7 4096 May 28 21:43 .vscode-server
drwxr-xr-x 2 latipun7 latipun7 4096 May 28 21:49 .vsliveshare
-rw-r--r-- 1 latipun7 latipun7   58 May 28 21:49 .wakatime.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 latipun7 latipun7 4096 May 28 23:15 .wakatime.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 latipun7 latipun7    0 May 28 22:22 .wakatime.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 latipun7 latipun7 4096 May 28 22:22 .wallaby
-rw-r--r-- 1 latipun7 latipun7  183 May 28 21:43 .wget-hsts

Notice, the directories of projects and downloads not created too in $HOME. By looking on that logs, it seems link and create are messing on /root/ instead of $HOME.

I use sudo ./install because just like in #125 , I have configuration that modify in /etc/ and need sudo, so I add the following lines on install script:

if [[ "$(uname -a)" = *[M,m]icrosoft* ]]; then
  cp --remove-destination "$BASEDIR/linux/wsl/wsl.conf" /etc/wsl.conf
fi

Please tell me if you want more information.
Thank you.

[anishathalye]

When the script is run with sudo, it's run as the root user. The root user's $HOME is in /root on your machine, so that's why the symlinks are going there. If you want to use Dotbot to put links in /etc or other locations only writable by root, you could use this approach of having two separate YAML configs, and having separate install scripts, so you can run ./install to set up the regular symlinks, and then run sudo ./install-sudo to run the stuff that must be done as root.

[latipun7]

As a workaround, yeah, I run without sudo, but I add this line in install.conf.yaml at shell directive:

- shell:
    - [git submodule sync --recursive, Synchronize the URLs of submodules]
    - [git submodule update --init --recursive, Update the submodules]
    - [
        '[[ "$(uname -a)" = *[M,m]icrosoft* ]] && sudo cp --remove-destination "linux/wsl/wsl.conf" /etc/wsl.conf',
        Force re-copy wsl configs,
      ]

and remove my additional lines on install.

Well, its work. Thanks to this #125 (comment)

And I could use that workaround you pointed out too.

Thanks.