[Nix-dev] mcaffee on nixos?

[Raahul Kumar]

In regards to packaging .deb

http://anderspapitto.com/posts/2015-02-28-deb-installation-nixos.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/3yvbyq/what_are_the_nixos_gotchas_for_the_debian_user/

Alternative source code method:
https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-quick-start

Aloha,
RK.

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Eike <eike at eknet.org> wrote:

>
> Hi Raahul,
>
> thanks for your answer. I know there exists binaries for linux. I could
> extract the zip from the mcaffee install script. It contains two deb and
> two rpm packages and it looks for dpkg or rpm to install them. I think I
> could probably extract the contents from the rpm/deb packages but then I
> need to patch the binaries so that they find the shared libs on nixos,
> right?  How can I do this, I'd guess with `patchelf` but I'm not sure
> how to use it correctly.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Eike
>
>
> Raahul Kumar <raahul.kumar at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Mcafee agent for linux does exist, so you can install it. Why your IT
> > department is stark raving mad is another, pertinent question though.
> > No one has packaged this for nix, so you will have to do the job
> yourself,
> > because I can't imagine any demand for this.
> >
> >
> http://www.mcafee.com/au/downloads/endpoint-protection/products/virusscan-enterprise-for-linux.aspx
> >
>
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