From ce86a9a0ae928f8cdbe26021b6b757bf5b9d7693 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:25:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * 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. --- scripts/nix-channel.in | 20 +++++++------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/nix-channel.in b/scripts/nix-channel.in index d7573258c4..ebfc246cfa 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