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authorMathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>2020-06-09 10:23:15 +0200
committerMathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>2020-06-09 10:32:19 +0200
commit8423c2d3097da2d9d25b6f56c1971ac7147d3ad9 (patch)
tree48e96c93adac5a612c300b1eedb25f4ef78157b6 /gnu/build
parent1b5d26c967b17b635c88a094e010cd42a9afb220 (diff)
downloadguix-8423c2d3097da2d9d25b6f56c1971ac7147d3ad9.tar.gz
build: image: Do not call make-essential-device-nodes by default.
Calling "mknod" without root permissions fails. Plus those device nodes do not
appear to be needed to boot.

* gnu/build/image.scm (initialize-root-partition): Do not use
make-essential-device-nodes as default make-device-nodes procedure.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/build')
-rw-r--r--gnu/build/image.scm6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/build/image.scm b/gnu/build/image.scm
index fb85bd4bb8..893b846976 100644
--- a/gnu/build/image.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/image.scm
@@ -161,8 +161,7 @@ deduplicates files common to CLOSURE and the rest of PREFIX."
                                     references-graphs
                                     (register-closures? #t)
                                     system-directory
-                                    (make-device-nodes
-                                     make-essential-device-nodes)
+                                    make-device-nodes
                                     #:allow-other-keys)
   "Initialize the given ROOT directory. Use BOOTCFG and BOOTCFG-LOCATION to
 install the bootloader configuration.
@@ -175,7 +174,8 @@ of the directory of the 'system' derivation."
   (populate-store references-graphs root)
 
   ;; Populate /dev.
-  (make-device-nodes root)
+  (when make-device-nodes
+    (make-device-nodes root))
 
   (when register-closures?
     (for-each (lambda (closure)