Re: [Nix-dev] Dealing with self-updating packages

2014-09-30 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 09/19/2014 07:42 PM, Russell O'Connor wrote: 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

[Nix-dev] Dealing with self-updating packages

2014-09-30 Thread Russell O'Connor
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