Dear nixers, I'm working on packaging gsutil < https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil>. This software comes with a "feature" that it can update itself by downloading the latest version and replacing itself in place.
Obviously this isn't going to work, and indeed when I force an update it fails with: $ gsutil update -f Checking for software update... This command will update to the "4.6" version of gsutil at /nix/store/4p33in0gqspwv2f4w2q0fq03cvj1iq9c-gsutil-4.6/share/gsutil Proceed? [y/N] y Copying gs://pub/gsutil.tar.gz... Downloading file://gsutil.tar.gz: 2.1 MB/2.1 MB Downloading file://gsutil.tar.gz: 2.1 MB/2.1 MB OSError: Read-only file system. My question is, how do you guys generally deal with this sort of software? I was thinking of creating a patch that will disable the update functionality. I would try to keep the notification of newer versions are available, but instead direct the user to update their nix-channel and/or notify the maintainer to update the version in nixpkgs. Thanks.
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