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diff --git a/guix/utils.scm b/guix/utils.scm
index 9e1b8ead0a..c68094cf49 100644
--- a/guix/utils.scm
+++ b/guix/utils.scm
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
arguments-from-environment-variable
file-extension
file-sans-extension
+ compressed-file?
switch-symlinks
call-with-temporary-output-file
call-with-temporary-directory
@@ -551,6 +552,11 @@ minor version numbers from version-string."
(substring file 0 dot)
file)))
+(define (compressed-file? file)
+ "Return true if FILE denotes a compressed file."
+ (->bool (member (file-extension file)
+ '("gz" "bz2" "xz" "lz" "tgz" "tbz2" "zip"))))
+
(define (switch-symlinks link target)
"Atomically switch LINK, a symbolic link, to point to TARGET. Works
both when LINK already exists and when it does not."