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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2019-08-27T20·18+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2019-08-27T20·18+0200
commitceefddafe839a0c9ac553367e16f965dda7fb086 (patch)
treede374548bd7a6369a63302f9539b4e365bbdc733 /scripts/install.in
parent787015fec0f64ae10653231d86111564d71f5d4c (diff)
Compress binary tarballs using xz
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/240.

Apparently 'tar -xf' can decompress xz files on macOS nowadays.
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/install.in')
-rw-r--r--scripts/install.in7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/install.in b/scripts/install.in
index 4857638c0265..902758b138a5 100644
--- a/scripts/install.in
+++ b/scripts/install.in
@@ -30,12 +30,11 @@ case "$(uname -s).$(uname -m)" in
     *) oops "sorry, there is no binary distribution of Nix for your platform";;
 esac
 
-url="https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-@nixVersion@/nix-@nixVersion@-$system.tar.bz2"
+url="https://nixos.org/releases/nix/nix-@nixVersion@/nix-@nixVersion@-$system.tar.xz"
 
-tarball="$tmpDir/$(basename "$tmpDir/nix-@nixVersion@-$system.tar.bz2")"
+tarball="$tmpDir/$(basename "$tmpDir/nix-@nixVersion@-$system.tar.xz")"
 
 require_util curl "download the binary tarball"
-require_util bzcat "decompress the binary tarball"
 require_util tar "unpack the binary tarball"
 
 echo "downloading Nix @nixVersion@ binary tarball for $system from '$url' to '$tmpDir'..."
@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ fi
 
 unpack=$tmpDir/unpack
 mkdir -p "$unpack"
-< "$tarball" bzcat | tar -xf - -C "$unpack" || oops "failed to unpack '$url'"
+tar -xf "$tarball" -C "$unpack" || oops "failed to unpack '$url'"
 
 script=$(echo "$unpack"/*/install)