[Nix-dev] gnutar 1.25 root conflict

[Kevin Quick]

When trying to use build some recent derivations using Nix (in a non-NixOS  
environment) with nix build workers (build-users-group = nixbld) I  
encounter this:

checking whether mknod can create fifo without root privileges...  
configure: error: in  
`/tmp/nix-build-7b47bnsf295kdvwzqik8y23m7sb8dbnn-gnutar-1.25.drv-0/tar-1.25:
configure: error: you should not run configure as root (set  
FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 in environment to bypass this check)


I don't know how to pass that environment variable via the nixbld workers  
(setting it in the nix-worker daemon environment had no effect).  Maybe  
this derivation needs a patch?

-KQ

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-KQ