[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] [NixOS/nixos] e05a37: rename deprecated option

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Wed Mar 6 17:48:05 CET 2013


Hi,

On 06/03/13 17:44, Vladimír Čunát wrote:

> On 03/06/2013 05:16 PM, shea at shealevy.com wrote:
>> It seems this commit has broken the NixOS installer tests:
>> http://hydra.nixos.org/build/4266474 for example fails with "error:
>> creating directory `/nix/store/.links': Read-only file system"
> 
> That's strange. /nix/store is expected to to be read-only, why try to create
> /nix/store/.links? To me it seems the bug is somewhere else, or this might be
> the reason Eelco wrote the line :-)

Well, Nix makes /nix/store writable (using a private mount namespace), otherwise
it wouldn't be able to do anything.  So creating that directory *should* work...

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