does not bootstrap system.build.etc aka /etc/ which means you should probably avoid nix-docker until it does

[ghuntley]

Howdy Daiderd,

A quick GitHub issue to say that I appreciate the work you are doing. I don't have time atm to send in a pull-request but here's a repro. Related issues #9

repro

FROM lnl7/nix:2.1.2

# baseline
RUN nix-env -iA nixpkgs.busybox 

# trust/use these 3rd party caches
RUN nix-env -iA cachix -f https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tarball/889c72032f8595fcd7542c6032c208f6b8033db6
RUN cachix -v use hie-nix

💥

[LnL7]

busybox binaries have much less functionality than the gnu versions, installing it globally is generally a bad idea and probably causing problems.

[ghuntley]

Ah no. The real issue is system.build.etc aka /etc/ isn't bootstrapped in the docker image. That was just a quick and easy way to demonstrate it.

[LnL7]

Not sure what that means.

[ghuntley]

https://github.com/NixOS/nixos/blob/master/modules/system/etc/etc.nix

[ghuntley]

Bootstrapping etc will fix this problem and #9

[LnL7]

That's a nixos module. I still don't understand the problem or how it's related to the image.