On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 03:53:17PM +0000, David Craven wrote: > commit 6526d43ea4fb0cd151a0d5e9a072c651c1c963d1 > Author: David Craven <da...@craven.ch> > Date: Fri Aug 26 21:45:57 2016 +0200 > > activation: Allow home directories to be created under /var/lib. > > * gnu/build/activation.scm (activate-user+groups): Make sure /var/lib > exists. > --- > gnu/build/activation.scm | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/gnu/build/activation.scm b/gnu/build/activation.scm > index 10aa58d..7dc40b0 100644 > --- a/gnu/build/activation.scm > +++ b/gnu/build/activation.scm > @@ -233,6 +233,9 @@ numeric gid or #f." > ;; 'groupadd' aborts if the file doesn't already exist. > (touch "/etc/group") > > + ;; Allow home directories to be created under /var/lib. > + (mkdir "/var/lib") > + > ;; Create the root account so we can use 'useradd' and 'groupadd'. > (activate-user (find (match-lambda > ((name (? zero?) _ ...) #t) >
This would fail when /var/lib already existed. I fixed it by using mkdir-p in a7199b7d994433eaabb989690887b921d053d761. Yesterday was my first time using the system tests: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Running-the-Test-Suite.html#Running-the-Test-Suite I assume they would have caught this, but I'm not sure. They definitely would have caught my breakage of GRUB when I updated QEMU recently ;)
