[Nix-dev] git in nix is broken...

[Dmitry Kalinkin]

Same can be achieved with makeWrapper
(http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#ssec-stdenv-functions)
Also, there is propagatedBuildInputs, but it is limited to Nix build
environment.

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Alexander Schmolck via nix-dev
<nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl> wrote:
> Yes, git filter-branch failing because e.g. sed is either not
> installed at all or not in PATH is what I meant.
>
> I wasn't aware that this is "intended behavior", I thought that nix
> packages were intended to be self-contained other than explicitly
> declared dependencies
>
> The way I ran into this was by building a docker image for a python
> application that has a runtime dependency on git with
> dockerTools.buildImage (code is here:
> https://github.com/smarkets/marge/blob/master/dockerize.nix). Most git
> commands work fine, but not ones that use the few commands that are
> implemented as shell scripts. Pulling in the branch in the PR via
> fetchTarball fixes the problem, but what would be the preferred way of
> doing this?
>
> alexander
>
> On 10 July 2017 at 18:47, Eelco Dolstra via nix-dev
> <nix-dev at lists.science.uu.nl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 07/10/2017 07:25 PM, Alexander Schmolck via nix-dev wrote:
>>
>>> ... because it appears to be missing dependencies like sed for
>>> commands such as git-filter-branch which are implemented as bash
>>> scripts.
>>
>> Broken how? What doesn't work?
>>
>> I guess you mean that some things fail if you execute with a $PATH that doesn't
>> contain the basic Unix utilities. This is likely the case for most shell code in
>> Nixpkgs.
>>
>> --
>> Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/
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