aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/src
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/nix-env/main.cc12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
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")