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-rw-r--r--guix/packages.scm8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/packages.scm b/guix/packages.scm
index 8b40c06000..3d5c7fd64a 100644
--- a/guix/packages.scm
+++ b/guix/packages.scm
@@ -563,8 +563,12 @@ identifiers. The result is inferred from the file names of patches."
(let* ((canonical (module-ref (resolve-interface '(gnu packages base))
'canonical-package))
(ref (lambda (module var)
- (canonical
- (module-ref (resolve-interface module) var)))))
+ ;; Make sure 'canonical-package' is not influenced by
+ ;; '%current-target-system' since we're going to use the
+ ;; native package anyway.
+ (parameterize ((%current-target-system #f))
+ (canonical
+ (module-ref (resolve-interface module) var))))))
`(("tar" ,(ref '(gnu packages base) 'tar))
("xz" ,(ref '(gnu packages compression) 'xz))
("bzip2" ,(ref '(gnu packages compression) 'bzip2))