[Nix-dev] nix-env doesn't realize there is a Wine update

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 07/22/2010 02:00 PM, Peter Simons wrote:

> Wine was recently updated from version 1.2-rc1 to 1.2-rc7. On
> 32-bit Linux, running
> 
>   nix-env -u \*
> 
> notices that and performs the update. On 64-bit Linux, however,
> it doesn't. No update is performed.
> 
> Is that behavior intentional?

Sort of.  Wine is built for i686-linux, so it's ignored by default on
x86_64-linux (e.g. it doesn't show up when you do "nix-env -qa wine" either).
You can override this by using the option "--system-filter '*'".

I have an uncommitted patch that makes this the default:

Index: src/nix-env/nix-env.cc
===================================================================
--- src/nix-env/nix-env.cc      (revision 22376)
+++ src/nix-env/nix-env.cc      (working copy)
@@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@

     globals.instSource.type = srcUnknown;
     globals.instSource.nixExprPath = getDefNixExprPath();
-    globals.instSource.systemFilter = thisSystem;
+    globals.instSource.systemFilter = "*";

     globals.dryRun = false;
     globals.preserveInstalled = false;

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