01/02: activation: Don't create unneeded "/var/guix/gcroots/etc-directory".

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 6496de9bc2deb30306922ace8498afa237dee1b1
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Dec 5 00:19:39 2014 +0100

    activation: Don't create unneeded "/var/guix/gcroots/etc-directory".
    
    * gnu/build/activation.scm (activate-etc): Don't create
      "/var/guix/gcroots/etc-directory".
---
 gnu/build/activation.scm |    6 +-----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/build/activation.scm b/gnu/build/activation.scm
index 3eebb71..c27cda3 100644
--- a/gnu/build/activation.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/activation.scm
@@ -205,11 +205,7 @@ numeric gid or #f."
                      ;; The default is 'string-locale<?', but we don't have
                      ;; it when run from the initrd's statically-linked
                      ;; Guile.
-                     string<?))
-
-  ;; Prevent ETC from being GC'd.
-  (rm-f "/var/guix/gcroots/etc-directory")
-  (symlink etc "/var/guix/gcroots/etc-directory"))
+                     string<?)))
 
 (define %setuid-directory
   ;; Place where setuid programs are stored.