[Nix-dev] fetchurl with executable bit?

[William Kennington]

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/corepkgs/fetchurl.nix has an
option to set executable. Maybe these should be consolidated.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:56 AM Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:

> 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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