[Nix-dev] fetchurl with executable bit?

[Domen Kožar]

aszlig pointed out:

   postFetch = "chmod +x '$out'";



On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to have a function that fetches a script from the url and stores
> it as an executable.
>
> Currently fetchurl doesn't support chmod:
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/default.nix
>
>
> My current workaround is to do:
>
> pkgs.writeScript "foobar" (builtins.readFile (pkgs.fetchurl {..}))
>
> but that's rather ugly.
>
> Do we have something in nixpkgs that's better? Should fetchurl be improved?
>
> Domen
>
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