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errors in pack symlink

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From: Hilton Chain <hako <at> ultrarare.space>
To: Cayetano Santos <csantosb <at> inventati.org>
Cc: 65524 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65524: errors in pack symlink
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:33:26 +0800

Hi Cayetano,

On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:50:53 +0800,
Cayetano Santos via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
>
>
> Hello guix,
>
>   I’m doing a simple
>
>     guix pack -S /.guix-profile/bin=bin mg
>
>   with no issue.
>
>   However, when I replace ’bin’ by ’sbin’, ’libexec’ or ’src’ I get an
>   error.
>
>     guix pack -S /.guix-profile/libexec=libexec mg
>
>   This used to perform correctly. Is that an expected behaviour ?
>
>   I’m using "738b0e4" from yesterday.

I don't know about the previous state, but currently mg and the
produced profile used by guix pack don't contain sbin, libexec or src:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ls /gnu/store/m11qlw60b4chz37cysqxg6kpixnqjld5-mg-20221112/
bin/  etc/  share/
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ls /gnu/store/5qn8s8qdlvxv1aj9dsh4bffbxqd9xbjn-profile/
bin@  etc/  share/  manifest
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks

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