[Nix-dev] Error on creating hoogle database (permission denied)

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Thomas Strobel <ts468 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> I was trying to create a hoogle database with 'hoogle data', but there
> is no way to specify where to write the database to. So I get the
> following error:
> ''
> hoogle:
> /nix/store/jl9j7s3s69q8l1imr9caxbxfc4cpg2g9-haskell-hoogle-ghc7.6.3-4.2.32/share/hoogle-4.2.32/databases:
> createDirectory: permission denied (Read-only file system)
> ''

Also see the new "hoogle-local" expression, which builds databases for any
packages listed in its 'packages' attributes (taking the current HP as a
default).

John