aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-09-25 14:00:59 +0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2006-09-25 14:00:59 +0000
commit3632019b737d1c570a3c30f4f3f07763b5b1d23c (patch)
tree0c966c09000394dc5404771816ccd2a20902af0f
parentd43565c3e837feea478aaa71bad7e0a92c1911f0 (diff)
* Quick hack to let nix-install-package set the package name properly
(e.g., "java-front-0.9pre15899" instead of "java-front"; particularly important when doing upgrades later on).
-rw-r--r--scripts/nix-install-package.in2
-rw-r--r--src/nix-env/main.cc12
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/nix-install-package.in b/scripts/nix-install-package.in
index 35f6d6824..dc46c8cb2 100644
--- a/scripts/nix-install-package.in
+++ b/scripts/nix-install-package.in
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ system("@bindir@/nix-pull", $manifestURL) == 0
print "\nInstalling package...\n";
-system("@bindir@/nix-env", "--install", $outPath, @extraNixEnvArgs) == 0
+system("@bindir@/nix-env", "--install", $outPath, "--force-name", $drvName, @extraNixEnvArgs) == 0
or barf "nix-env failed: $?";
diff --git a/src/nix-env/main.cc b/src/nix-env/main.cc
index 416f89bcc..6a4038715 100644
--- a/src/nix-env/main.cc
+++ b/src/nix-env/main.cc
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ struct Globals
bool dryRun;
bool preserveInstalled;
bool keepDerivations;
+ string forceName;
};
@@ -448,8 +449,15 @@ static void installDerivations(Globals & globals,
queryInstSources(globals.state, globals.instSource, args, newElems, true);
StringSet newNames;
- for (DrvInfos::iterator i = newElems.begin(); i != newElems.end(); ++i)
+ for (DrvInfos::iterator i = newElems.begin(); i != newElems.end(); ++i) {
+ /* `forceName' is a hack to get package names right in some
+ one-click installs, namely those where the name used in the
+ path is not the one we want (e.g., `java-front' versus
+ `java-front-0.9pre15899'). */
+ if (globals.forceName != "")
+ i->name = globals.forceName;
newNames.insert(DrvName(i->name).name);
+ }
/* Add in the already installed derivations, unless they have the
same name as a to-be-installed element. */
@@ -1139,6 +1147,8 @@ void run(Strings args)
Expr value = parseExprFromString(globals.state, *i, absPath("."));
globals.instSource.autoArgs.set(toATerm(name), value);
}
+ else if (arg == "--force-name") // undocumented flag for nix-install-package
+ globals.forceName = needArg(i, args, arg);
else if (arg == "--uninstall" || arg == "-e")
op = opUninstall;
else if (arg == "--upgrade" || arg == "-u")