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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-02-27 23:24:56 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-02-27 23:29:30 +0100
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parent749b9582061f7d929be83a194040b63b41afec81 (diff)
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guix package: Don't error out when failing to create ~/.guix-profile.
This is a followup to 7842ddcbc118cbc2799e22651732b7cdc06b93ee, which broke tests when 'HOME' is unset. * guix/scripts/package.scm (ensure-default-profile): Silently ignore 'symlink' exceptions.
-rw-r--r--guix/scripts/package.scm7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/package.scm b/guix/scripts/package.scm
index 1cb0d382bf..d2f4f1ccd3 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/package.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/package.scm
@@ -81,12 +81,15 @@
"Ensure the default profile symlink and directory exist and are writable."
(ensure-profile-directory)
- ;; Create ~/.guix-profile if it doesn't exist yet.
+ ;; Try to create ~/.guix-profile if it doesn't exist yet.
(when (and %user-profile-directory
%current-profile
(not (false-if-exception
(lstat %user-profile-directory))))
- (symlink %current-profile %user-profile-directory)))
+ (catch 'system-error
+ (lambda ()
+ (symlink %current-profile %user-profile-directory))
+ (const #t))))
(define (delete-generations store profile generations)
"Delete GENERATIONS from PROFILE.