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#!/bin/sh
# This script installs the Nix package manager on your system by
# downloading a binary distribution and running its installer script
# (which in turn creates and populates /nix).
{ # Prevent execution if this script was only partially downloaded
oops() {
echo "$0:" "$@" >&2
exit 1
}
tmpDir="$(mktemp -d -t nix-binary-tarball-unpack.XXXXXXXXXX || \
oops "Can\'t create temporary directory for downloading the Nix binary tarball")"
cleanup() {
rm -rf "$tmpDir"
}
trap cleanup EXIT INT QUIT TERM
require_util() {
type "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1 || which "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1 ||
oops "you do not have '$1' installed, which I need to $2"
}
hash=b8abd530a613753bf534669fe2b90c49acf963d6300062850867adfcd928a9d3
url="http://hydra.earthtools.ca/build/44193/download/1/nix-1.11.4pre1234_abcdef-armv7l-linux.tar.bz2"
tarball="$tmpDir/$(basename "$tmpDir/nix-1.11.8-$system.tar.bz2")"
require_util curl "download the binary tarball"
require_util bzcat "decompress the binary tarball"
require_util tar "unpack the binary tarball"
echo "downloading Nix 1.11.8 binary tarball for $system from '$url' to '$tmpDir'..."
curl -L "$url" -o "$tarball" || oops "failed to download '$url'"
if type sha256sum > /dev/null 2>&1; then
hash2="$(sha256sum -b "$tarball" | cut -c1-64)"
elif type shasum > /dev/null 2>&1; then
hash2="$(shasum -a 256 -b "$tarball" | cut -c1-64)"
elif type openssl > /dev/null 2>&1; then
hash2="$(openssl dgst -r -sha256 "$tarball" | cut -c1-64)"
else
oops "cannot verify the SHA-256 hash of '$url'; you need one of 'shasum', 'sha256sum', or 'openssl'"
fi
if [ "$hash" != "$hash2" ]; then
oops "SHA-256 hash mismatch in '$url'; expected $hash, got $hash2"
fi
unpack=$tmpDir/unpack
mkdir -p "$unpack"
< "$tarball" bzcat | tar x -C "$unpack" || oops "failed to unpack '$url'"
script=$(echo "$unpack"/*/install)
[ -e "$script" ] || oops "installation script is missing from the binary tarball!"
"$script"
} # End of wrapping
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