Marc Weber wrote:
> Excerpts from Shea Levy's message of Wed Aug 17 21:37:32 +0200 2011:
>> I've been thinking about creating a nixpkgs branch to find and eliminate
>> some of the remaining impurities in the Linux stdenv.
>
> "linux stdenv" ? What are you referring to exactly?
>
> Impurities:
>
Michael Raskin wrote:
> We pass /dev/ inside chroot as-is. There are many readable sources of
> disaster there. I am not sure foozjs doesn't have a mode where it tries
> to detect your printer during installation.
I read foo2zjs sources ;). It doesn't.
Hi,
Shea Levy skribis:
> 1. What impurities does the current stdenv have? I can think of three
> off of the top of my head: timestamps in files, kernel version
> (e.g. via uname), and /bin/sh.
There’s uname(2), getrlimit(2), gettimeofday(2), getpid(2), /proc, /sys,
the ‘cpuid’ instruction, etc.
Excerpts from Yury G. Kudryashov's message of Wed Aug 17 22:21:21 +0200 2011:
> > - the store location (for completeness)
> This is OK since changing store path changes all hashes. But
For one package I had to change a generated file resulting in a crash
because I didn't change the length field acc
