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-rw-r--r--guix/packages.scm7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/packages.scm b/guix/packages.scm
index 61171b8342..29351ace1d 100644
--- a/guix/packages.scm
+++ b/guix/packages.scm
@@ -576,7 +576,12 @@ specifies modules in scope when evaluating SNIPPET."
#:fail-on-error? #t)))))
(zero? (apply system*
(string-append #+tar "/bin/tar")
- "cvfa" #$output
+ "cvf" #$output
+ ;; The bootstrap xz does not support
+ ;; threaded compression (introduced in
+ ;; 5.2.0), but it ignores the extra flag.
+ (string-append "--use-compress-program="
+ #+xz "/bin/xz --threads=0")
;; avoid non-determinism in the archive
"--mtime=@0"
"--owner=root:0"