[Nix-dev] Re: Grub2 For EFI-based Systems

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> writes:

> The specific revision this patch points to is the 1.99~rc1
> release. Using the tarball would be preferable, but as I said fetchurl
> chokes on a tarball with a ~ in its name.

This can be worked around:

  src = fetchurl {
    url = ...
    name = "grub-1.99rc1"; # get rid of `~'
  };

HTH,
Ludo’.