| 4 Sep 2025 |
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 Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | In reply to @vcunat:matrix.org
Ah, though I see some red crosses further back in August, too. Yeah that’s what I meant | 10:59:50 |
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| timschumi | I'm currently on a very fun trip into ca-derivations, currently fighting with a package that appears to try to build/install into the nix store even if it already exists. Are there any tips as to figure out why Nix decides to rebuild that package? | 18:48:00 |
| timschumi | error: builder for '/nix/store/jvhilihvvhpp06fwld4hcbd0mh23lvvq-file-5.45.drv' failed with exit code 2;
last 25 log lines:
> make[1]: Entering directory '/build/file-5.45/python'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'check'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/file-5.45/python'
> make[1]: Entering directory '/build/file-5.45'
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/file-5.45'
> Running phase: installPhase
> install flags: -j4 SHELL=/nix/store/x2851i2wapwmbr4gaq2g7ybnz1sms0kr-bash-5.3p3/bin/bash pkgconfigdir=/nix/store/xblakyv8z3hvdzvd2ng1dyiab92l474d-file-5.45-dev/lib/pkgconfig m4datadir=/nix/store/xblakyv8z3hvdzvd2ng1dyiab92l474d-file-5.45-dev/share/aclocal aclocaldir=/nix/store/xblakyv8z3hvdzvd2ng1dyiab92l474d-file-5.45-dev/share/aclocal install
> Making install in src
> make[1]: Entering directory '/build/file-5.45/src'
> make install-am
> make[2]: Entering directory '/build/file-5.45/src'
> make[3]: Entering directory '/build/file-5.45/src'
> /nix/store/05wpyv2imar5xwyjmigc4c060d359zpc-coreutils-9.7/bin/mkdir -p '/nix/store/dr62dbw08z1ff3y423zw6xh8pff12n3p-file-5.45/lib'
> /nix/store/05wpyv2imar5xwyjmigc4c060d359zpc-coreutils-9.7/bin/mkdir -p '/nix/store/xblakyv8z3hvdzvd2ng1dyiab92l474d-file-5.45-dev/include'
> /nix/store/x2851i2wapwmbr4gaq2g7ybnz1sms0kr-bash-5.3p3/bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /nix/store/05wpyv2imar5xwyjmigc4c060d359zpc-coreutils-9.7/bin/install -c libmagic.la '/nix/store/dr62dbw08z1ff3y423zw6xh8pff12n3p-file-5.45/lib'
> /nix/store/05wpyv2imar5xwyjmigc4c060d359zpc-coreutils-9.7/bin/install -c -m 644 magic.h '/nix/store/xblakyv8z3hvdzvd2ng1dyiab92l474d-file-5.45-dev/include'
> libtool: install: /nix/store/05wpyv2imar5xwyjmigc4c060d359zpc-coreutils-9.7/bin/install -c .libs/libmagic.so.1.0.0 /nix/store/dr62dbw08z1ff3y423zw6xh8pff12n3p-file-5.45/lib/libmagic.so.1.0.0
> install: cannot remove '/nix/store/dr62dbw08z1ff3y423zw6xh8pff12n3p-file-5.45/lib/libmagic.so.1.0.0': Permission denied
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:467: install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/build/file-5.45/src'
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:709: install-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/file-5.45/src'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:702: install] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/file-5.45/src'
> make: *** [Makefile:464: install-recursive] Error 1
For full logs, run:
nix log /nix/store/jvhilihvvhpp06fwld4hcbd0mh23lvvq-file-5.45.drv
| 18:48:10 |
| timschumi | The directory where file is trying to install itself into is ovbiously already existing and well-referred:
$ nix-store --query --referrers /nix/store/dr62dbw08z1ff3y423zw6xh8pff12n3p-file-5.45
/nix/store/dr62dbw08z1ff3y423zw6xh8pff12n3p-file-5.45
/nix/store/0w79a0jh56j5dwm15k5a72caizqqasli-stdenv-linux.drv
/nix/store/80jx7q4ngfgbnljbvx2g3hsx82ad4yfx-stdenv-linux
/nix/store/117p1nn1fm3ylwhfmbzjh3fly8a7vgg8-Private.SourceBuilt.Artifacts.8.0.118-servicing.25323.1.centos.9-x64
/nix/store/15mvhsvv80ikl6d5n2gsxawbf1lmggl4-stdenv-linux
/nix/store/1wcj6nwanpphksfah0z8d4f74giznpjl-stdenv-linux.drv
[...]
| 18:48:18 |
| timschumi | * I'm currently on a very fun trip into ca-derivations, currently fighting with a package that appears to try to build/install into the nix store even if it already exists. Are there any tips as to figure out why Nix decides to rebuild that package? | 18:49:11 |
| 7 Sep 2025 |
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| Aspen Smith | Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium): hi! I am at the nixcon hack day, trying to get rid of null-terminated strings; John Ericson told me to reach out to you | 09:45:55 |
| Aspen Smith | when I did pascal-strings for tvix-eval it was like a 15% improvement on evaluating pkgs.hello.outPath | 09:48:22 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | FWIW Lix is also moving in this direction. https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/963 emily | 09:50:17 |
| Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | Aspen Smith: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13407 | 09:57:36 |
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