[Nix-dev] Packaging software that mutates itself

[Alexei Robyn]

I suggest you look into the way Steam is packaged, as it also self-
updates (and updates other applications under its control).
 
 
On Fri, May 6, 2016, at 09:13 AM, Tomasz Czyż wrote:
> 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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