[Nix-dev] Getting Nix to work on MacOS

[Konrad Hinsen]

Eelco Dolstra writes:

 > What does "nix-env -qas hello" show?  It should show something like
 > 
 > $ nix-env -qas hello
 > --S  hello-2.7
 > 
 > If the "S" is missing, it means it doesn't know about the pre-built binaries in
 > the Nixpkgs channel for some reason.  Check if there is something in
 > /nix/var/nix/manifests.

The S is indeed missing. But there is file /nix/var/nix/manifests either:

~> ll /nix/var/nix
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  7 hinsen  staff  238 Mar 23 11:55 db
-rw-------  1 hinsen  staff    0 Mar 23 11:55 gc.lock
drwxr-xr-x  5 hinsen  staff  170 Mar 23 11:55 gcroots
drwxr-xr-x  4 hinsen  staff  136 Mar 23 11:57 profiles
drwxr-xr-x  2 hinsen  staff   68 Mar 23 12:11 temproots

Konrad.