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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/system/install.scm | 10 |
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)) |