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guix system init installs grub.cfg gcroot to host

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From: Jookia <166291 <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22802 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22802: guix system init installs grub.cfg gcroot to host
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:40:22 +1100

On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 01:15:38PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Jookia <166291 <at> gmail.com> skribis:
> > When running 'guix system init', GRUB requires a GC root to be placed in
> > /var/guix. When building a VM, this GC root is placed in <disk>/var/guix/gcroots
> > however while building a system on another drive, the GC root is placed on the
> > host's /var/guix/gcroots
>
> Indeed, good catch!
>
> I believe this is fixed with the patch below.  Can you confirm?

I can't easily confirm since I don't have a system I can 'init' to anymore, and
I've already fixed this in my set of GRUB patches so it'd also lock me out of
Libreboot on my actual machine if I did.

> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Sorry,
Jookia.

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