Cannot access any environment variables

Question

Cannot access any environment variables

Closed this issue 6 years ago · 4 comments

From the source of AppRun.c I'd expect a number of environment variables to be available, in particular $USER. However:

$ echo $USER
nathan
$ nix-bundle bash /bin/bash
Nix bundle created at bash.
$ ./bash
bash-4.4$ echo $USER

bash-4.4$

Answer 1 · 2018-06-18T16:34:49.000Z

Are you running nix-bundle from a Nixpkgs install? I think that one might be a little bit older.

Answer 2 · 2018-06-18T16:51:39.000Z

Ah, yes, that may be it.

Answer 3 · 2018-06-18T17:01:06.000Z

You can clone this repo & use it directly as ./nix-bundle.sh. If that fixes this problem, I can do a new release so hopefully other people don't run into this.

Answer 4 · 2019-01-30T19:12:39.000Z

You can clone this repo & use it directly as ./nix-bundle.sh. If that fixes this problem, I can do a new release so hopefully other people don't run into this.

Yes, please do that. Nixpkgs version can't build AppImages.