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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/system')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/system/install.scm | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system/install.scm b/gnu/system/install.scm index cacd089d6b..27d8ecdefc 100644 --- a/gnu/system/install.scm +++ b/gnu/system/install.scm @@ -73,11 +73,12 @@ under /root/.guix-profile where GUIX is installed." (zero? (system* "tar" "--xz" "--format=gnu" "--owner=root:0" "--group=root:0" "-cvf" #$output - ;; Avoid adding /, /var, or /root to the tarball, + ;; Avoid adding / and /var to the tarball, ;; so that the ownership and permissions of those ;; directories will not be overwritten when - ;; extracting the archive. - "./root/.guix-profile" + ;; extracting the archive. Do not include /root + ;; because the root account might have a different + ;; home directory. "./var/guix" (string-append "." (%store-directory))))))) |