[Nix-dev] tar mkdir function not implemented

[quick at sparq.org]

Quoting Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>:

> Hi,
> 
> On 11/03/2011 04:14 PM, quick at sparq.org wrote:
> 
> > building /nix/store/0jmzlnayh2p06vlgmiiyaj3xppc6l9lr-zlib-1.2.5
> > unpacking sources
> > unpacking source archive /nix/store/hadgw0cdg8f8dlnd47lqk15rdpwfdwnx-
> > zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
> > zlib-1.2.5/
> > tar: zlib-1.2.5: Cannot mkdir: Function not implemented
> 
> This wouldn't happen to be on some kind of Red Hat / Centos system, right? 
> I
> seem to remember that they made some incompatible kernel changes in some
> versions that caused incompatibilities with vanilla Glibc.

Embarassingly, yes.  I'm stuck with a RHEL3 system and was hoping to be able to 
use nix to "overlay" a nice, recent set of tools/libraries onto that ancient 
base to enable some needed functionality.

Anyone been down this path before?  I feel like it's close to working...

Maybe there's even a "--system-filter rhel" or something similar?  :-)

-KQ

P.S. Kernel 2.4.21-60.ELsmp

> 
> The "unpacking sources" message comes from pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh (in
> Nixpkgs).
> 
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