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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2011-04-19 10:52:35 +0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2011-04-19 10:52:35 +0000
commitd94cb02bfe4119a91948d31b1b9082328955dae1 (patch)
treef9eb3c4221abe19d98c6172cd94273a253dfbd17
parent8c69dac8a1d25c043ddb27d5c8dde5b072030667 (diff)
* nix-install-package: unset NIX_REMOTE because $NIX_MANIFESTS_DIR
doesn't work when building through the Nix daemon. This also ensures an error message when the user doesn't have sufficient privileges to do nix-pull.
-rw-r--r--scripts/nix-install-package.in5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/nix-install-package.in b/scripts/nix-install-package.in
index 9f848b16d..f40cfc7d0 100644
--- a/scripts/nix-install-package.in
+++ b/scripts/nix-install-package.in
@@ -124,8 +124,11 @@ if ($interactive) {
# Store the manifest in the temporary directory so that we don't
-# pollute /nix/var/nix/manifests.
+# pollute /nix/var/nix/manifests. This also requires that we don't
+# use the Nix daemon (because otherwise download-using-manifests won't
+# see our NIX_MANIFESTS_DIRS environment variable).
$ENV{NIX_MANIFESTS_DIR} = $tmpDir;
+$ENV{NIX_REMOTE} = "";
print "\nPulling manifests...\n";