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author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2012-02-02 12:25:56 +0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2012-02-02 12:25:56 +0000 |
commit | ce86a9a0ae928f8cdbe26021b6b757bf5b9d7693 (patch) | |
tree | a542732bbb31e41c053ac0f2bba48a72868e9600 /scripts | |
parent | baa0501cc120619ac3b76eaa53fff10cffd02449 (diff) |
* nix-channel: fail if we don't have write permission to the manifests
directory. Previously in this situation we did add the Nix
expressions from the channel to allow installation from source, but
this doesn't work for binary-only channels and leads to confusing
error messages.
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-x | scripts/nix-channel.in | 20 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/nix-channel.in b/scripts/nix-channel.in index d7573258c..ebfc246cf 100755 --- a/scripts/nix-channel.in +++ b/scripts/nix-channel.in @@ -79,20 +79,14 @@ sub update { # Create the manifests directory if it doesn't exist. mkdir $manifestDir, 0755 unless -e $manifestDir; - # Do we have write permission to the manifests directory? If not, - # then just skip pulling the manifest and just download the Nix - # expressions. If the user is a non-privileged user in a - # multi-user Nix installation, he at least gets installation from - # source. - if (-W $manifestDir) { - - # Pull cache manifests. - foreach my $url (@channels) { - #print "pulling cache manifest from `$url'\n"; - system("$Nix::Config::binDir/nix-pull", "--skip-wrong-store", "$url/MANIFEST") == 0 - or die "cannot pull cache manifest from `$url'"; - } + # Do we have write permission to the manifests directory? + die "$0: you do not have write permission to `$manifestDir'!\n" unless -W $manifestDir; + # Pull cache manifests. + foreach my $url (@channels) { + #print "pulling cache manifest from `$url'\n"; + system("$Nix::Config::binDir/nix-pull", "--skip-wrong-store", "$url/MANIFEST") == 0 + or die "cannot pull cache manifest from `$url'"; } # Create a Nix expression that fetches and unpacks the channel Nix |