[Nix-dev] Re: cpio broken by update in r22458

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Peter,

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:

> GNU cpio 2.11 doesn't compile on Darwin [1], and that failure blocks a
> whole lot of updates for me. Is anyone working on a fix? 

Not really “working” ;-), but I emailed the maintainers:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/2010-07/msg00001.html

I’ll ping them and/or investigate.

Would you like to reinstate an older version (preferably in parallel) in
the meantime?

Thanks,
Ludo’.