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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/build/linux-initrd.scm | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/build/linux-initrd.scm b/gnu/build/linux-initrd.scm index 8caeba8722..bf60137e8f 100644 --- a/gnu/build/linux-initrd.scm +++ b/gnu/build/linux-initrd.scm @@ -35,9 +35,11 @@ (cpio "cpio") (gzip "gzip")) "Write a cpio archive containing DIRECTORY to file OUTPUT, using CPIO. When COMPRESS? is true, compress it using GZIP. On success, return OUTPUT." + + ;; Note: don't use '--no-absolute-filenames' since that strips leading + ;; slashes from symlink targets. (let ((pipe (open-pipe* OPEN_WRITE cpio "-o" "-O" output - "-H" "newc" "--null" - "--no-absolute-filenames"))) + "-H" "newc" "--null"))) (define (print0 file) (format pipe "~a\0" file)) |