A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
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After installing Nix, I found that all the files and directories initially copied into the store were writable, with mode 644 or 755: drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Dec 31 1969 /nix/store/ddmmzn4ggz1f66lwxjy64n89864yj9w9-nix-2.3.3 The reason is that that's how they were in the unpacked tarball, and the install-multi-user script used `rsync -p` without doing anything else to affect the permissions. The plain `install` script for a single-user install takes care to do a `chmod -R a-w` on each store path copied. We could do the same here with one more command; or we can pass `--chmod` to rsync, to have it write the files with the desired modes in the first place. Tested the new `rsync` command on both a Linux machine with a reasonably-modern rsync (3.1.3) and a Mac with its default, ancient, rsync 2.6.9, and it works as expected on both. Thankfully the latter is just new enough to have `--chmod`, which dates to rsync 2.6.7. |
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Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at https://nixos.org/nix/manual.
Contributing
Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1