[Nix-dev] Completely stumped upgrading on Mac

[Michael Sperber]

Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/24/2015 05:53 PM, Michael Sperber wrote:
>> downloading ‘https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2857322/bootstrap-tools.9.cpio.bz2’...
>> error: unable to download
>> ‘https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2857322/bootstrap-tools.9.cpio.bz2’:
>> Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?) (77)
>
> That should be possible to work around by running
> nix-prefetch-url
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2857322/bootstrap-tools.9.cpio.bz2
> (I verified it downloads on NixOS at least.)

Thanks, that got me over the hump.  (Is this a bug?)

Next issue: Almost every time nix-env ends up installing something from
source, the build fails trying to install man pages like this:

moving /nix/store/qhpf938zw5mbrlvazpnlkvd9z3fmvyyq-adv_cmds-153/share/man to /share/man
mv: cannot move '/nix/store/qhpf938zw5mbrlvazpnlkvd9z3fmvyyq-adv_cmds-153/share/man' to '/share/man/man': Permission denied

Anybody know how to work around this?

-- 
Regards,
Mike