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| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/install-multi-user.sh | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh | 5 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/install-multi-user.sh b/scripts/install-multi-user.sh index 6ee8dd48582e..3d2acaac82f5 100644 --- a/scripts/install-multi-user.sh +++ b/scripts/install-multi-user.sh @@ -240,10 +240,16 @@ EOF } trap finish_fail EXIT +channel_update_failed=0 function finish_success { finish_cleanup ok "Alright! We're done!" + if [ "x$channel_update_failed" = x1 ]; then + echo "" + echo "But fetching the nixpkgs channel failed. (Are you offline?)" + echo "To try again later, run \"sudo -i nix-channel --update nixpkgs\"." + fi cat <<EOF Before Nix will work in your existing shells, you'll need to close @@ -737,7 +743,9 @@ setup_default_profile() { # otherwise it will be lost in environments where sudo doesn't pass # all the environment variables by default. _sudo "to update the default channel in the default profile" \ - HOME="$ROOT_HOME" NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE="$NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE" "$NIX_INSTALLED_NIX/bin/nix-channel" --update nixpkgs + HOME="$ROOT_HOME" NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE="$NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE" "$NIX_INSTALLED_NIX/bin/nix-channel" --update nixpkgs \ + || channel_update_failed=1 + } diff --git a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh index ab20774bbf03..62f7cb673ccf 100644 --- a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh +++ b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh @@ -138,7 +138,10 @@ if ! $nix/bin/nix-channel --list | grep -q "^nixpkgs "; then $nix/bin/nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable fi if [ -z "$_NIX_INSTALLER_TEST" ]; then - $nix/bin/nix-channel --update nixpkgs + if ! $nix/bin/nix-channel --update nixpkgs; then + echo "Fetching the nixpkgs channel failed. (Are you offline?)" + echo "To try again later, run \"nix-channel --update nixpkgs\"." + fi fi added= |