Re: [Nix-dev] Platform indepent installer hardcodes /bin/chmod

2012-06-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Bryce L Nordgren bnordg...@gmail.com skribis: But it seems that the java-based installer hardcodes /bin/chmod instead of using $PATH. (error follows). Therefore most of the scripts are not executable. Is there a recommended workaround? Yes, run ‘sed’ over the source files to replace

Re: [Nix-dev] Platform indepent installer hardcodes /bin/chmod

2012-06-12 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:28:48AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, Bryce L Nordgren bnordg...@gmail.com skribis: But it seems that the java-based installer hardcodes /bin/chmod instead of using $PATH. (error follows). Therefore most of the scripts are not executable. Is there a

Re: [Nix-dev] Platform indepent installer hardcodes /bin/chmod

2012-06-12 Thread Bryce L Nordgren
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.namewrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:28:48AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, Bryce L Nordgren bnordg...@gmail.com skribis: But it seems that the java-based installer hardcodes /bin/chmod instead of using

Re: [Nix-dev] Platform indepent installer hardcodes /bin/chmod

2012-06-12 Thread Shea Levy
On Jun 12, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Bryce L Nordgren bnordg...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:28:48AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, Bryce L Nordgren bnordg...@gmail.com skribis: But it

Re: [Nix-dev] Platform indepent installer hardcodes /bin/chmod

2012-06-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Bryce L Nordgren bnordg...@gmail.com skribis: The installer is a compiled java jarfile. Could you build from source? One of the strengths of Nix is its ability to track down the complete build process that led to a particular binary. It would be great if packages in Nixpkgs would all be built

[Nix-dev] Missing archive

2012-06-12 Thread Marco Maggesi
Hi, I get an error (see below) during the installation of TimeDate on Darwin. If I understand correctly what is going on, a derivation that is supposed to be available in binary form it is not actually available for download. Is this a bug? Thank you. M. soyuz-2:~ maggesi$ nix-env -f

Re: [Nix-dev] Missing archive

2012-06-12 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 12/06/12 15:28, Marco Maggesi wrote: I get an error (see below) during the installation of TimeDate on Darwin. If I understand correctly what is going on, a derivation that is supposed to be available in binary form it is not actually available for download. Is this a bug? You may

Re: [Nix-dev] Missing archive

2012-06-12 Thread Marco Maggesi
2012/6/12 Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com: You may have an old manifest that refers to files that have been deleted from the server since.  Try deleting the files in /nix/var/nix/manifests. It works, thank you. M. ___ nix-dev mailing list

[Nix-dev] nixos/nixpkgs release tags?

2012-06-12 Thread Florian Friesdorf
Hi, I have some local changes that are not in a state to be committed yet, but I'd like to use them already, so I have to patch nixos/nixpkgs. Also I'd like to be as close to the channel versions as possible. Are there / could there be tags on github to indicate the latest nixos/nixpkgs

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos/nixpkgs release tags?

2012-06-12 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 12/06/12 17:26, Florian Friesdorf wrote: I have some local changes that are not in a state to be committed yet, but I'd like to use them already, so I have to patch nixos/nixpkgs. Also I'd like to be as close to the channel versions as possible. Are there / could there be tags on

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos/nixpkgs release tags?

2012-06-12 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:29:43 -0400, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, On 12/06/12 17:26, Florian Friesdorf wrote: I have some local changes that are not in a state to be committed yet, but I'd like to use them already, so I have to patch nixos/nixpkgs. Also I'd like