[Nix-dev] error with nixpkgs_ustable tarball and channel

[Olexiy Buyanskyy]

Hi,

2011/3/15 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viriketo at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:26:54PM -0400, Olexiy Buyanskyy wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I see file pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/mozilla-plugins/flashplayer-9/default.ni
>> missing 'x'
>
> I just tried:
> $ curl http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.bz2 | bunzip2 | tar tv | grep flash
> -rw-r--r-- nixbld/nixbld    914 1970-01-01 01:00
> nixpkgs-0.14pre26329/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/mozilla-plugins/flashplayer-9/default.nix
>
> It has the x.
>
> Maybe it is some peculiarity of AIX
You were right about this. I had some ancient version of tar
tar-1.13-4
After installation of
tar-1.26-1
it works now.
I will document this as requirement for nix here
http://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Compile_Nix_on_AIX

--
Olexiy