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Re: Is mkdir-p a directory outside of /gnu/store.... possible?


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: Is mkdir-p a directory outside of /gnu/store.... possible?
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:12:57 +0100
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James Smith via <help-guix@gnu.org> writes:

> I am using the guix package manager on Debian.
> I guix package --install-from-file-myapp.scm and during the install process I 
> would like to
>
> (mkdir-p "$HOME/.config/myapp") and then
> (system* (cp "/gnu/store/.../myapp/config.txt" "$HOME/.config/myapp"))

During the build you have no access to anything but the eventual output
directory under /gnu/store.

-- 
Ricardo



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