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-rw-r--r--gnu/services/base.scm12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index e46bb591a9..cd8d512edc 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@
#:select (alsa-utils crda eudev e2fsprogs fuse gpm kbd lvm2 rng-tools))
#:use-module (gnu packages bash)
#:use-module ((gnu packages base)
- #:select (coreutils glibc glibc-utf8-locales))
+ #:select (coreutils glibc glibc-utf8-locales tar))
+ #:use-module ((gnu packages compression) #:select (gzip))
#:autoload (gnu packages guile-xyz) (guile-netlink)
#:autoload (gnu packages hurd) (hurd)
#:use-module (gnu packages package-management)
@@ -1709,7 +1710,14 @@ proxy of 'guix-daemon'...~%")
(string-append "GUIX_LOCPATH="
#$glibc-utf8-locales
"/lib/locale")
- "LC_ALL=en_US.utf8")
+ "LC_ALL=en_US.utf8"
+ ;; Make 'tar' and 'gzip' available so
+ ;; that 'guix perform-download' can use
+ ;; them when downloading from Software
+ ;; Heritage via '(guix swh)'.
+ (string-append "PATH="
+ #$(file-append tar "/bin") ":"
+ #$(file-append gzip "/bin")))
(if proxy
(list (string-append "http_proxy=" proxy)
(string-append "https_proxy=" proxy))