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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2021-10-04 14:18:45 +0200
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2021-10-04 14:26:43 +0200
commita03562b478f50c302b6398fe5793fc072ed621f2 (patch)
tree72c4a3b661acdb005e0a4a4d55e77075a0f833a2 /gnu/packages/ssh.scm
parent35284f3697969b8722eee473e6bc57453875177c (diff)
downloadguix-a03562b478f50c302b6398fe5793fc072ed621f2.tar.gz
Revert "gnu: openssh: Remove empty /var/empty."
Oh, hello, you must be new here:

  $ git show ba912479e8481d69b699ce348b35d5d70f0c9367

That silly person really ought to have added a comment to the code,
shouldn't they?  This reverts similar changes made in commit
ec7bcdc35af17021a9dfd73ef49750d0ad82b989, and adds one.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
index f7e6286db0..4e217888fd 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
@@ -259,10 +259,9 @@ a server that supports the SSH-2 protocol.")
           (lambda* (#:key outputs (make-flags '()) #:allow-other-keys)
             (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
               ;; Install without host keys and system configuration files.
+              ;; This will install /var/empty to the store, which is needed
+              ;; by the system openssh-service-type.
               (apply invoke "make" "install-nosysconf" make-flags)
-              (with-directory-excursion out
-                (rmdir "var/empty")
-                (rmdir "var"))
               (with-directory-excursion "contrib"
                 (chmod "ssh-copy-id" #o555)
                 (install-file "ssh-copy-id"