nixos-rebuild: switch to tmpDir during rebuilds

This is a workaround for issue #144811 until this issue is either fixed
on nix itself.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nixos-rebuild/nixos-rebuild.sh b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nixos-rebuild/nixos-rebuild.sh
index e5e40dca086e..7f6d6ce22827 100755
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nixos-rebuild/nixos-rebuild.sh
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/nixos-rebuild/nixos-rebuild.sh
@@ -362,14 +362,16 @@ if [ "$action" = edit ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-
+ORIGIN_PWD="$PWD"
 tmpDir=$(mktemp -t -d nixos-rebuild.XXXXXX)
 SSHOPTS="$NIX_SSHOPTS -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPath=$tmpDir/ssh-%n -o ControlPersist=60"
+cd "$tmpDir"
 
 cleanup() {
     for ctrl in "$tmpDir"/ssh-*; do
         ssh -o ControlPath="$ctrl" -O exit dummyhost 2>/dev/null || true
     done
+    cd "$ORIGIN_PWD"
     rm -rf "$tmpDir"
 }
 trap cleanup EXIT