Hi, I get the following error message in response to an attempt to update the channel subscription:
$ nix-channel --list http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable $ nix-channel --update obtaining list of Nix archives at `http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/MANIFEST.bz2'... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 529k 100 529k 0 0 393k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 408k 2711 store paths in manifest downloading Nix expressions from `http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/nixexprs.tar.bz2'... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 2018k 100 2018k 0 0 437k 0 0:00:04 0:00:04 --:--:-- 442k unpacking channel Nix expressions... store derivation is /nix/store/z20c58b52mka1p3ijvxx8825ldh9fp5q-channels.drv the following derivations will be built: /nix/store/z20c58b52mka1p3ijvxx8825ldh9fp5q-channels.drv building path(s) `/nix/store/36djmp7skrc4g98bjv84y4vmhw9l4sq9-channels' unpacking channel nixpkgs-unstable bunzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. /nix/store/6w3v9dxd29b0y4k0hnwl17ya28b56y4d-gnutar-1.22/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /nix/store/6w3v9dxd29b0y4k0hnwl17ya28b56y4d-gnutar-1.22/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors builder for `/nix/store/z20c58b52mka1p3ijvxx8825ldh9fp5q-channels.drv' failed with exit code 2 error: build of `/nix/store/z20c58b52mka1p3ijvxx8825ldh9fp5q-channels.drv' failed cannot unpack the channels at /home/simons/.nix-profile/bin/nix-channel line 130. Apparently the tar.bz2 file is corrupted? Is that possible? Take care, Peter _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@cs.uu.nl https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
