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-rw-r--r--src/nix/search.cc2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix/search.cc b/src/nix/search.cc
index 87cdb2d7e..1adde28cb 100644
--- a/src/nix/search.cc
+++ b/src/nix/search.cc
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ struct CmdSearch : SourceExprCommand, MixJSON
throw Error("error writing to %s", tmpFile);
}
- if (rename(tmpFile.c_str(), jsonCacheFileName.c_str()) == -1)
+ if (writeCache && rename(tmpFile.c_str(), jsonCacheFileName.c_str()) == -1)
throw SysError("cannot rename '%s' to '%s'", tmpFile, jsonCacheFileName);
}
}