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Diffstat (limited to 'guix/scripts/system.scm')
| -rw-r--r-- | guix/scripts/system.scm | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/system.scm b/guix/scripts/system.scm index 92e92237b6..69bd05b516 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/system.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/system.scm @@ -126,7 +126,11 @@ REFERENCES as its set of references." ;; Remove DEST if it exists to make sure that (1) we do not fail badly ;; while trying to overwrite it (see <http://bugs.gnu.org/20722>), and ;; (2) we end up with the right contents. - (when (file-exists? dest) + (when (false-if-exception (lstat dest)) + (for-each make-file-writable + (find-files dest (lambda (file stat) + (eq? 'directory (stat:type stat))) + #:directories? #t)) (delete-file-recursively dest)) (copy-recursively item dest |