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-rw-r--r--tests/guix-gc.sh10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/guix-gc.sh b/tests/guix-gc.sh
index a100f186f5..57c5e7dd61 100644
--- a/tests/guix-gc.sh
+++ b/tests/guix-gc.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
# GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-# Copyright © 2013, 2015 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+# Copyright © 2013, 2015, 2017 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
#
# This file is part of GNU Guix.
#
@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ guix gc --version
trap "rm -f guix-gc-root" EXIT
rm -f guix-gc-root
+# Below we are using 'drv' and 'out' to contain store file names. If 'drv'
+# and 'out' are environment variables, 'list-runtime-roots' will "see" them
+# and thus prevent $drv and $out from being garbage-collected. Using 'unset'
+# allows us to make sure these are truly local shell variables and not
+# environments variables.
+unset drv
+unset out
+
# For some operations, passing extra arguments is an error.
for option in "" "-C 500M" "--verify" "--optimize"
do