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authorMark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>2015-06-21 14:30:22 -0400
committerMark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>2015-06-21 14:30:22 -0400
commitbf76d98789a0fc6303c303beddbc1ed609f2a6ea (patch)
tree1df8db2fa06f6826a1c7a1cb1faa253df704834e /guix
parentfc9ff915b3cfcb494dbb5c8ab767972352fa31da (diff)
parent12b04cbee6b9c725db8a5c898b597de8e667bef0 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' into core-updates
Diffstat (limited to 'guix')
-rw-r--r--guix/gexp.scm8
-rw-r--r--guix/store.scm11
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/guix/gexp.scm b/guix/gexp.scm
index 10056e5a1f..0b5c43e2b8 100644
--- a/guix/gexp.scm
+++ b/guix/gexp.scm
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ cross-compiling.)"
(recursive? local-file-recursive?)) ;Boolean
(define* (local-file file #:optional (name (basename file))
- #:key (recursive? #t))
+ #:key recursive?)
"Return an object representing local file FILE to add to the store; this
object can be used in a gexp. FILE will be added to the store under NAME--by
default the base name of FILE.
@@ -167,7 +167,11 @@ designates a flat file and RECURSIVE? is true, its contents are added, and its
permission bits are kept.
This is the declarative counterpart of the 'interned-file' monadic procedure."
- (%local-file file name recursive?))
+ ;; Canonicalize FILE so that if it's a symlink, it is resolved. Failing to
+ ;; do that, when RECURSIVE? is #t, we could end up creating a dangling
+ ;; symlink in the store, and when RECURSIVE? is #f 'add-to-store' would just
+ ;; throw an error, both of which are inconvenient.
+ (%local-file (canonicalize-path file) name recursive?))
(define-gexp-compiler (local-file-compiler (file local-file?) system target)
;; "Compile" FILE by adding it to the store.
diff --git a/guix/store.scm b/guix/store.scm
index 933708defc..7b13334952 100644
--- a/guix/store.scm
+++ b/guix/store.scm
@@ -610,11 +610,12 @@ path."
store-path)))
(lambda (server basename recursive? hash-algo file-name)
"Add the contents of FILE-NAME under BASENAME to the store. When
-RECURSIVE? is true and FILE-NAME designates a directory, the contents of
-FILE-NAME are added recursively; if FILE-NAME designates a flat file and
-RECURSIVE? is true, its contents are added, and its permission bits are
-kept. HASH-ALGO must be a string such as \"sha256\"."
- (let* ((st (stat file-name #f))
+RECURSIVE? is false, FILE-NAME must designate a regular file--not a directory
+nor a symlink. When RECURSIVE? is true and FILE-NAME designates a directory,
+the contents of FILE-NAME are added recursively; if FILE-NAME designates a
+flat file and RECURSIVE? is true, its contents are added, and its permission
+bits are kept. HASH-ALGO must be a string such as \"sha256\"."
+ (let* ((st (false-if-exception (lstat file-name)))
(args `(,st ,basename ,recursive? ,hash-algo))
(cache (nix-server-add-to-store-cache server)))
(or (and st (hash-ref cache args))