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-rw-r--r--gnu/system/install.scm10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system/install.scm b/gnu/system/install.scm
index 799851c9d7..007bd25ae6 100644
--- a/gnu/system/install.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/install.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -71,7 +72,14 @@ under /root/.guix-profile where GUIX is installed."
(with-directory-excursion %root
(zero? (system* "tar" "--xz" "--format=gnu"
"--owner=root:0" "--group=root:0"
- "-cvf" #$output ".")))))
+ "-cvf" #$output
+ ;; Avoid adding /, /var, or /root to the tarball,
+ ;; so that the ownership and permissions of those
+ ;; directories will not be overwritten when
+ ;; extracting the archive.
+ "./root/.guix-profile"
+ "./var/guix"
+ "./gnu")))))
(gexp->derivation "guix-tarball.tar.xz" build
#:references-graphs `(("profile" ,profile))