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Greg Price 26851dd2c2 installer: Set files read-only when copying into store
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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.github Remove build and binaryTarball since they're included in installerScript 2020-03-13 15:56:25 +01:00
config update config/config.{sub,guess} 2018-08-13 20:00:17 +00:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
corepkgs Move some corepkgs into the nix binary 2020-03-11 16:57:48 +01:00
doc/manual Remove the --delete option for --gc 2020-03-19 19:41:23 +01:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers upload-release.pl: Fix sshfs call 2019-09-04 21:44:40 +02:00
misc Make nix-daemon.plist less fragile on macOS 2019-10-09 12:52:01 +01:00
mk mk/README.md: Remove 2020-03-13 14:50:51 +01:00
nix-rust Remove macro_use 2020-02-10 09:03:24 +01:00
perl nix-perl: Fix segfault in queryPathInfo) 2020-03-10 11:00:17 +01:00
scripts installer: Set files read-only when copying into store 2020-03-22 23:07:20 -07:00
src Remove the --delete option for --gc 2020-03-19 19:41:23 +01:00
tests Move some corepkgs into the nix binary 2020-03-11 16:57:48 +01:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set additional lambda indentation to zero 2020-02-20 07:56:35 +01:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Merge pull request #2748 from edolstra/rust 2019-11-29 19:33:31 +01:00
.travis.yml travis: enable linux builds 2019-10-31 16:37:33 +00:00
.version Bump version 2019-09-04 15:59:33 +02:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Merge branch 'libarchive' of https://github.com/yorickvP/nix 2019-12-19 14:47:18 +01:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
local.mk Shut up about deprecated functions 2019-12-10 13:44:49 +01:00
Makefile Add some Rust code 2019-11-26 22:07:28 +01:00
Makefile.config.in libarchive proof of concept 2019-12-07 22:35:14 +07:00
precompiled-headers.h Fix macOS build 2019-11-07 11:53:28 +01:00
README.md README.md: Remove reference to OpenSSL 2020-03-13 18:42:53 +01:00
release-common.nix Remove the tarball job 2020-03-13 18:05:22 +01:00
release.nix Remove the 'release' job 2020-03-13 18:34:10 +01:00
shell.nix Remove the tarball job 2020-03-13 18:05:22 +01:00

Open Collective supporters

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