From c9d406ba04b81c21f187348fe52fa6e1f95ad78c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:09:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix --no-daemon installation

It was accidentally triggering the auto-chroot code path because
/nix/var/nix didn't exist.

Fixes #6790.
---
 scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh
index d543b4463..cd3cf6670 100644
--- a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh
+++ b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh
@@ -148,7 +148,9 @@ if ! [ -w "$dest" ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-mkdir -p "$dest/store"
+# The auto-chroot code in openFromNonUri() checks for the
+# non-existence of /nix/var/nix, so we need to create it here.
+mkdir -p "$dest/store" "$dest/var/nix"
 
 printf "copying Nix to %s..." "${dest}/store" >&2
 # Insert a newline if no progress is shown.