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Add usrBinEnv setup hook for running scripts with #!/usr/bin/env shebang during build without patching them #319420

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Add usrBinEnv setup hook for running scripts with #!/usr/bin/env shebang during build without patching them #319420

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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
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Expand Up @@ -1448,6 +1448,12 @@ with pkgs;
#package writers
writers = callPackage ../build-support/writers { };

# Useful for creating /usr/bin/env in a build environment to run build scripts with #!/usr/bin/env shebang
usrBinEnv = makeSetupHook { name = "create-usr-bin-env"; } (pkgs.writeText "create-usr-bin-env.sh" ''
mkdir -m 0755 -p /usr/bin
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I'm getting

mkdir: cannot create directory '/usr': Permission denied

and ls -la / && id from that hook looks like so

total 0
drwxr-x---   1 nobody nixbld   48 Dec  7 13:51 .
drwxr-x---   1 nobody nixbld   48 Dec  7 13:51 ..
drwxr-xr-x   1 nobody nogroup   4 Dec  7 13:51 bin
drwx------   1 nixbld nixbld    0 Dec  7 13:51 build
drwxr-xr-x   1 nobody nogroup 120 Dec  7 13:51 dev
dr-xr-xr-x   1 nobody nogroup  32 Dec  7 13:51 etc
drwxr-xr-x   1 nobody nogroup  10 Dec  7 13:51 nix
dr-xr-xr-x 418 nobody nogroup   0 Dec  7 13:51 proc
drwxrwxrwt   1 nobody nogroup   0 Dec  7 13:51 tmp

uid=1000(nixbld) gid=100(nixbld) groups=100(nixbld)

ln -sfn "${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/env" /usr/bin/env
'');

# lib functions depending on pkgs
inherit (import ../pkgs-lib {
# The `lib` variable in this scope doesn't include any applied lib overlays,
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