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| author | Manav Rathi <mx4492@gmail.com> | 2016-11-03T17·02+0530 |
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| committer | Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si> | 2016-11-03T17·02+0100 |
| commit | eec5409a69054cf21214c3f5846ec0310fcb8228 (patch) | |
| tree | 94ea1252280cbf32ebfe81d3a95e00f1e81fc37a /doc | |
| parent | 18b7363a699c0b5a4bf59d2b320dfc2b84dc4e67 (diff) | |
installation: allow profile modification to be skipped (#1072)
The current behaviour modifies the first writeable file from amongst .bash_profile, .bash_login and .profile. So .bash_profile (if it is writable) would be modified even if a user has already sourced nix.sh in, say, .profile. This commit introduces a new environment variable, NIX_INSTALLER_NO_MODIFY_PROFILE. If this is set during installation, then the modifications are unconditionally skipped. This is useful for users who have a manually curated set of dotfiles that they are porting to a new machine. In such scenarios, nix.sh is already sourced at a place where the user prefers. Without this change, the nix installer would insist on modifying .bash_profile if it exists. This commit also add documentations for both the current behaviour and the new override.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml b/doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml index da54e2bedd6f..2a9beec98c9b 100644 --- a/doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml +++ b/doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml @@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ $ mkdir /nix $ chown alice /nix </screen> +The install script will modify the first writable file from amongst +<filename>.bash_profile</filename>, <filename>.bash_login</filename> +and <filename>.profile</filename> to source +<filename>~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename>. You can set +the <command>NIX_INSTALLER_NO_MODIFY_PROFILE</command> environment +variable before executing the install script to disable this +behaviour. + </para> <!-- |