Currently, a self-extracting archive created by makeself will fail to
properly execute on NixOS because the boilerplate Bash code it uses to
clean up the temporary directory it extracted its contents into
assumes that the `rm` command is installed at `/bin/rm`, which is not
the case on NixOS.

This commit, a backport of a pull request I made to the upstream
repository at megastep/makeself#142, fixes the issue by causing the
boilerplate code to call `rm` without specifying an absolute path,
which allows the version of `rm` from one's current Nix environment to
be used instead.
This commit is contained in:
Keshav Kini
2018-10-03 10:31:58 -07:00
parent fe5d78a1f2
commit eb84586cad
2 changed files with 47 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
sha256 = "1lw3gx1zpzp2wmzrw5v7k31vfsrdzadqha9ni309fp07g8inrr9n";
};
patchPhase = ''
# backported from https://github.com/megastep/makeself/commit/77156e28ff21231c400423facc7049d9c60fd1bd
patches = [ ./Use-rm-from-PATH.patch ];
postPatch = ''
sed -e "s|^HEADER=.*|HEADER=$out/share/${name}/makeself-header.sh|" -i makeself.sh
'';