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Author SHA1 Message Date
Eelco Dolstra
fb2dd32100 SSL_CERT_FILE -> NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE
This prevents collisions with the "native" OpenSSL, in particular on
OS X.

Fixes #921.
2016-10-13 17:09:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
33664f0e8d Fix reference to $NIX_LINK 2016-05-31 15:14:24 +02:00
Gabriel Gonzalez
3889415bf8 Fix ?? in Nix warning message
Nix sometimes outputs a warning message like this:

```
directory /nix does not exist; creating it by running ‘?? using sudo
```

... when it really meant to output something that looked like this:

```
directory /nix does not exist; creating it by running 'mkdir -m 0755 /nix && chown gabriel /nix' using sudo
```

The reason why is due to some bizarre behavior in Bash where it will translate anything of the form `$x’` to `??`, leading to the incorrect warning message.  I don't know what is the origin of this Bash behavior, but the easiest fix is to just use ASCII quotes instead of unicode quotes.
2016-05-18 12:02:48 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
a54736355a install-nix-from-closure: Don't run nix-store --verify
Verification is slow. Also, we really shouldn't advise users to nuke
their store.
2016-04-14 12:50:01 +02:00
Wout Mertens
ef00999fb7 Remove information about nix-store --optimise 2016-04-10 21:55:26 +02:00
wmertens
4916d92092 Always verify nix store on install
Just wasted a couple hours chasing shadows because the nix store got
corrupted and there was no indication of that anywhere.

Since an install is one-time only, might as well verify.  Optimization
showed that the copied files aren't read-only; fixed that as well.

Also, use /bin/sh since there's a good chance that this script will be
run on systems without /bin/bash
2016-04-10 21:55:26 +02:00
Shea Levy
4f011bccf8 Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/stepcut/nix 2016-02-19 18:21:41 -05:00
Alex Cruice
ad0dc41899 Check shell profile is writeable before modifying
The `set -e` at the top of the script causes the installation to fail to
complete if the shell profile is not writeable. Checking file existence
only is not enough.
2016-02-10 11:57:50 +01:00
Jeremy Shaw
3afa16e16f Clarify installation error message that is shown when /nix/store exists but is not writable by the user 2015-12-06 11:00:03 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra
bf8cc4e9b6 Update cacert locations 2015-06-08 11:40:35 +02:00
Jeff Ramnani
d53735c823 Nix install script failed when "cd" printed to stdout.
In some cases the bash builtin command "cd" can print the variable $CWD
to stdout.  This caused the install script to fail while copying files
because the source path was wrong.

Fixes #476.
2015-02-11 12:39:14 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra
c2a552b075 Install cacert before running nix-channel
Also, make it more robust against incorrent SSL_CERT_FILE values.
2014-12-13 16:53:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
20cf0127f5 Include cacert in the binary tarball
This prevents having to fetch Nixpkgs or cacert over http.
2014-12-10 16:05:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
2f16946064 Always use https to fetch the Nixpkgs channel 2014-12-10 11:35:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5d064e2698 Add a test for the binary tarball installer 2014-11-18 14:50:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
11849a320e Use proper quotes everywhere 2014-08-20 18:03:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
4a198dae74 install-nix-from-closure.sh: Use https channel if possible 2014-08-07 15:37:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
2ea2703fe9 install-nix-from-closure.sh: Install cacert 2014-07-29 17:12:15 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
924e19341a Don't barf when installing as root 2014-04-10 23:42:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
506d86394d Installer: Handle Darwin
"cp -r" doesn't copy symlinks properly on Darwin, but "cp -R" does.

Fixes #215.
2014-02-26 17:23:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1f841c9d50 Force use of Bash
"echo -n" doesn't work with /bin/sh on Darwin.
2014-02-10 17:42:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
57386c9bae Binary tarball: Automatically create /nix
The tarball can now be unpacked anywhere.  The installation script
uses "sudo" to create /nix if it doesn't exist.  It also fetches the
nixpkgs-unstable channel.
2014-02-10 16:35:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c5839752b9 Binary tarball: Automatically fetch the Nixpkgs channel 2014-02-10 10:50:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6814b1dfa1 Generate binary tarballs for installing Nix
For several platforms we don't currently have "native" Nix packages
(e.g. Mac OS X and FreeBSD).  This provides the next best thing: a
tarball containing the closure of Nix, plus a simple script
"nix-finish-install" that initialises the Nix database, registers the
paths in the closure as valid, and runs "nix-env -i /path/to/nix" to
initialise the user profile.

The tarball must be unpacked in the root directory.  It creates
/nix/store/... and /usr/bin/nix-finish-install.  Typical installation
is as follows:

  $ cd /
  $ tar xvf /path/to/nix-1.1pre1234_abcdef-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2
  $ nix-finish-install
  (if necessary add ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh to the shell
  login scripts)

After this, /usr/bin/nix-finish-install can be deleted, if desired.

The downside to the binary tarball is that it's pretty big (~55 MiB
for x86_64-linux).
2012-05-22 18:36:54 -04:00