Broken

[bjornfor]

Trying to use the example from the front page / README.md:

$ ./nix-bundle.sh hello /bin/hello
error:
       … while calling the 'derivationStrict' builtin
         at <nix/derivation-internal.nix>:37:12:
           36|
           37|   strict = derivationStrict drvAttrs;
             |            ^
           38|

       … while evaluating derivation 'arx'
         whose name attribute is located at /nix/store/z455k4pqp0wxszp4y09by73n55wzsm9i-nixpkgs-source/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix:541:13

       … while evaluating attribute 'buildCommand' of derivation 'arx'
         at /home/bf/inbox/nix-bundle/default.nix:37:7:
           36|       };
           37|       buildCommand = ''
             |       ^
           38|         # tmpdir has a additional `/` in the beginning to work around `QualifiedPath` checking for `|/|./|../|`

       (stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full, detailed trace)

       error: Package ‘bytestring-nums-0.3.6’ in /nix/store/z455k4pqp0wxszp4y09by73n55wzsm9i-nixpkgs-source/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix:122068 is marked as broken, refusing to evaluate.

       a) To temporarily allow broken packages, you can use an environment variable
          for a single invocation of the nix tools.

            $ export NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN=1

          Note: When using `nix shell`, `nix build`, `nix develop`, etc with a flake,
                then pass `--impure` in order to allow use of environment variables.

       b) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set
         { nixpkgs.config.allowBroken = true; }
       in configuration.nix to override this.

       c) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add
         { allowBroken = true; }
       to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix.
error: path '/home/bf/nix-bundle' is not in the Nix store
./nix-bundle.sh failed. Exiting.

This is on NixOS 25.11.

Maybe nix-bundle should pin its build time dependencies (if that's what causing the problem here) from a well known / good nixpkgs version, seeing as nixpkgs is so unstable...

[bjornfor]

Ref. NixOS/nixpkgs#477128.

[bjornfor]

nix-build -A haskellPackages.bytestring-nums works in nixpkgs release-25.05.

[CrazyChaoz]

PR #126 fixes that for the flake usage (nix bundle --bundler github:CrazyChaoz/nix-bundle#default)