locate: fix creation of the parent directory of of locate database

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/modules/misc/locate.nix b/nixos/modules/misc/locate.nix
index 6d9bc915ba030..654cce95ab233 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/misc/locate.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/misc/locate.nix
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ in {
         path = mkIf (!isMLocate) [ pkgs.su ];
         script =
           ''
-            install -m ${if isMLocate then "0750" else "0755"} -o root -g ${if isMLocate then "mlocate" else "root"} -d $(dirname ${cfg.output})
+            mkdir -m 0755 -p ${dirOf cfg.output}
             exec ${cfg.locate}/bin/updatedb \
               ${optionalString (cfg.localuser != null) ''--localuser=${cfg.localuser}''} \
               --output=${toString cfg.output} ${concatStringsSep " " cfg.extraFlags}