[bug#45991] [PATCH core-updates] Move 'mkdir-p/perms' to gnu/build/utils.scm

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Maxime,

Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:

> This is the patch I talked about on IRC. It moves the various inline
> definitions of 'mkdir-p/perms' from gnu/services/... to gnu/build/utils.scm.
> I've also written a few tests. As this change entails a world rebuild,
> this should be applied to core-updates instead of master (as civodul
> pointed out).

Since (gnu build activation) now has a variant of ‘mkdir-p/perms’ that
verifies that directory components are not symlinks, should we still
include this one in (guix build utils)?

Thanks for all the parens!  :-)

Ludo’.