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-rwxr-xr-xetc/guix-install.sh3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/etc/guix-install.sh b/etc/guix-install.sh
index 5012db55dd..1949f00ed4 100755
--- a/etc/guix-install.sh
+++ b/etc/guix-install.sh
@@ -363,7 +363,8 @@ sys_create_store()
cd "$tmp_path"
_msg "${INF}Installing /var/guix and /gnu..."
- tar --extract --file "$pkg" -C /
+ # Strip (skip) the leading ‘.’ component, which fails on read-only ‘/’.
+ tar --extract --strip-components=1 --file "$pkg" -C /
_msg "${INF}Linking the root user's profile"
mkdir -p ~root/.config/guix