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authorAlyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>2021-02-10 20:48:54 +0000
committerAlyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>2021-03-29 17:19:06 +0000
commit8e71416e5d4306c3800133ca6dc2ad4469480b90 (patch)
tree081d83f56c564e644c9e1de558793971bb7f1c4f /pkgs/applications/virtualization
parentc2b66f270221c50d4dfee888ce92ed0e512300a2 (diff)
qemu: set localstatedir
Otherwise qemu-qa, qemu-pr-helper, and virtiofsd, try to write to
$out/var at runtime.

Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/113909
Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/112886
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/applications/virtualization')
-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/virtualization/qemu/default.nix7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/qemu/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/qemu/default.nix
index 84604c65579f8..c04d3b3394522 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/qemu/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/qemu/default.nix
@@ -101,6 +101,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     })
   ];
 
+  # Otherwise tries to ensure /var/run exists.
+  postPatch = ''
+    sed -i "/install_subdir('run', install_dir: get_option('localstatedir'))/d" \
+        qga/meson.build
+  '';
+
   preConfigure = ''
     unset CPP # intereferes with dependency calculation
     # this script isn't marked as executable b/c it's indirectly used by meson. Needed to patch its shebang
@@ -119,6 +125,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       "--enable-docs"
       "--enable-tools"
       "--enable-guest-agent"
+      "--localstatedir=/var"
       "--sysconfdir=/etc"
     ]
     ++ optional numaSupport "--enable-numa"