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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-07-23 18:17:06 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-07-23 18:20:56 +0200
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parentb6debdaa22931646fbbc116048732c6bcb37af3c (diff)
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guix system: Protect against changes to $PATH when activating the system.
Partly fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/18082>. Reported by Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>. * guix/scripts/system.scm (save-environment-excursion): New macro. (switch-to-system): Wrap 'primitive-load' call in it.
-rw-r--r--guix/scripts/system.scm16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/system.scm b/guix/scripts/system.scm
index 5737807d8b..4f1869af38 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/system.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/system.scm
@@ -172,6 +172,16 @@ When GRUB? is true, install GRUB on DEVICE, using GRUB.CFG."
;; The system profile.
(string-append %state-directory "/profiles/system"))
+(define-syntax-rule (save-environment-excursion body ...)
+ "Save the current environment variables, run BODY..., and restore them."
+ (let ((env (environ)))
+ (dynamic-wind
+ (const #t)
+ (lambda ()
+ body ...)
+ (lambda ()
+ (environ env)))))
+
(define* (switch-to-system os
#:optional (profile %system-profile))
"Make a new generation of PROFILE pointing to the directory of OS, switch to
@@ -185,7 +195,11 @@ it atomically, and then run OS's activation script."
(switch-symlinks profile generation)
(format #t (_ "activating system...~%"))
- (return (primitive-load (derivation->output-path script)))
+
+ ;; The activation script may change $PATH, among others, so protect
+ ;; against that.
+ (return (save-environment-excursion
+ (primitive-load (derivation->output-path script))))
;; TODO: Run 'deco reload ...'.
)))