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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-06-08 23:25:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-06-08 23:25:51 +0200 |
| commit | 7acd3439eab716882835228be16346c5d3b4df21 (patch) | |
| tree | 563a8baa04c64a698ec8b7320a5d6cc0978bb075 /gnu/system | |
| parent | 751630c9c3f7f3e87dfccc5f5ba8cf61cdd6f8fd (diff) | |
install: Omit /root from the binary tarball.
Suggested by Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>.
* gnu/system/install.scm (self-contained-tarball): Remove
"/root/.guix-profile" from the 'tar' arguments.
* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Add a step to create
~root/.guix-profile.
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))))))) |