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unpack phase randomly changes the cwd

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From: Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name>
To: "bug-guix <at> gnu.org" <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: unpack phase randomly changes the cwd
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 11:16:29 +0000

at the end of the unpack phase, the working directory is changed to a random directory.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm#n178

this is fine *when* the archive contains a single dir... but this DWIM'ness has just burned 15 mintues of my life, and i recommend removing it.

if it is to stay, then at least it should be patched that it only happens when the dir after extraction only contains a single subdir, and no files otherwise.

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