[Nix-dev] Providing Debian, Arch etc. packages counterproductive?

[Thomas Hunger]

Hi Alaistair,

Thanks for doing that change! We've tried your package on a fresh install
and it doesn't add the channel or
`$HOME/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh`. After we've added those manually
we ran into the locale bug in [1]. Are you getting that bug as well? And if
so, did you manage to work around that?

~

[1]
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/599

On 23 September 2015 at 10:15, Alastair Pharo <asppsa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> I’m the author of this script by the way. I didn’t say that before.
>
> The bulk of the work that it does is in the install file which is not easy
> to view from the AUR website, so I’m not sure if you saw it. Here
> <https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/nix-multiuser.install?h=nix-multiuser>
> is a link to it in the git repo viewer. It’s still a very simple script;
> it’s mostly just doing what is described on the wiki for Debian:
>
>    1. create users
>    2. make a skeleton /nix folder
>    3. display a message telling the user how to enable the daemon.
>
> It wasn’t doing (2) properly until a few minutes ago; previously it was
> failing if /nix/store didn’t exist. As you will see, the installer is
> basically just a shell script that gets run as root when the package is
> installed, so if there is a more official version of this process, it would
> probably be quite easy to include it there.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alastair
>
> On 23 September 2015 18:02, Thomas Hunger wrote:
>
> Alastair,
>
> Looking at [1] it looks like the only thing that package does is setting an
> env variable - how did you get your /nix tree started? Maybe we could
> extend nix-multiuser to execute your /nix steps on start?
>
>
>
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