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| author | Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com> | 2020-10-19 11:54:21 -0500 |
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| committer | Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com> | 2020-10-19 12:28:08 -0500 |
| commit | f289bdb9d4e8432160c5dcdc037a930b2025d11b (patch) | |
| tree | 970bf38e13fa3bd848bd8470ab27ce6210a36d26 | |
| parent | c40bad415104398450866d32682011db0acb0310 (diff) | |
discourage casual Big Sur installs
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh index 4e64f3d43..ea2e47b7f 100644 --- a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh +++ b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh @@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ if [ "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" ]; then IFS='.' read macos_major macos_minor macos_patch << EOF $(sw_vers -productVersion) EOF + # TODO: this is a temporary speed-bump to keep people from naively installing Nix + # on macOS Big Sur (11.0+, 10.16+) until nixpkgs updates are ready for them. + # *Ideally* this is gone before next Nix release. If you're intentionally working on + # Nix + Big Sur, just comment out this block and be on your way :) + if [ "$macos_major" -gt 10 ] || { [ "$macos_major" -eq 10 ] && [ "$macos_minor" -gt 15 ]; }; then + echo "$0: nixpkgs isn't quite ready to support macOS $(sw_vers -productVersion) yet" + exit 1 + fi + if [ "$macos_major" -lt 10 ] || { [ "$macos_major" -eq 10 ] && [ "$macos_minor" -lt 12 ]; } || { [ "$macos_minor" -eq 12 ] && [ "$macos_patch" -lt 6 ]; }; then # patch may not be present; command substitution for simplicity echo "$0: macOS $(sw_vers -productVersion) is not supported, upgrade to 10.12.6 or higher" |