Merge pull request #5521 from abathur/clearly_mark_validation_step

installer: clarify starting assumption task
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Domen Kožar 2021-12-08 20:04:03 +00:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -377,6 +377,11 @@ cure_artifacts() {
}
validate_starting_assumptions() {
task "Checking for artifacts of previous installs"
cat <<EOF
Before I try to install, I'll check for signs Nix already is or has
been installed on this system.
EOF
if type nix-env 2> /dev/null >&2; then
warning <<EOF
Nix already appears to be installed. This installer may run into issues.
@ -386,6 +391,11 @@ $(uninstall_directions)
EOF
fi
# TODO: I think it would be good for this step to accumulate more
# knowledge of older obsolete artifacts, if there are any.
# We could issue a "reminder" here that the user might want
# to clean them up?
for profile_target in "${PROFILE_TARGETS[@]}"; do
# TODO: I think it would be good to accumulate a list of all
# of the copies so that people don't hit this 2 or 3x in