[Nix-dev] Packaging software that mutates itself

[Tomasz Czyż]

IMHO, this is pretty simple.
You pack "first/original" version into immutable store /nix/store. You add
tiny wrapper around it, which checks if /var/lib/<app> exists, if not,
create directory and copy binary there and run it there. If file already
exists in /var/lib, execute it directly. Application can update itself
there.

2016-05-05 23:07 GMT+01:00 Nikita Karetnikov <nikita at karetnikov.org>:

> On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 01:02:15AM +0300, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
> > The server is controlled by other people.
>
> I'd like to add that I'm assuming that these people are not malicious.  In
> this
> case, I'm more worried about a misconfigured package that might break my
> system
> in some way.
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