Hi,
I am working on my first real derivation, packaging vmware-player (see full derivation below, note that it is still very much a work in progress and is not entirely complete).
I can run nix-build and it builds the package, and it installs properly with nix-env -i -f vmware-player.nix. But when I try to run the binary vmplayer, but this instantly errors out with:
$ vmplayer
/home//.nix-profile/bin/vmplayer: line 15: /etc/vmware/bootstrap: No such file or directory
I try to provide the bootstrap file in the derivation, and it is put properly in the derivation in /nix/store/zvcqnyy0m1lnifx8chq94jnmzfcp3zlj-vmware-player-16.1.1-17801498 but since the file is in the derivation and not /etc it does not find it.
So, what is the correct way to make vmplayer find the /etc/vmware/bootstrap (or redirect)?
Also, if there is a better way to provide libgdbm.so.3 than my hack below I would appreciate the input.
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {}, ... }:
with pkgs;
let
vmware-player-unpack-env = buildFHSUserEnv rec {
name = "vmware-player-unpack-env";
targetPkgs = pkgs: with pkgs; [ zlib ];
};
gdbm3 = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
pname = "gdbm3";
version = "1.8.3";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/gdbm/gdbm-${version}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "sha256-zDQDOKLii0AFirnrU1SiHVP4ihWC6iG6C7GFw3ooHck=";
};
doCheck = true; # not cross;
# Linking static stubs on cygwin requires correct ordering.
# Consider upstreaming this.
# Disable dbmfetch03.at test because it depends on unlink()
# failing on a link in a chmod -w directory, which cygwin
# apparently allows.
postPatch = lib.optionalString stdenv.buildPlatform.isCygwin ''
substituteInPlace tests/Makefile.in --replace \
'_LDADD = ../src/libgdbm.la ../compat/libgdbm_compat.la' \
'_LDADD = ../compat/libgdbm_compat.la ../src/libgdbm.la'
substituteInPlace tests/testsuite.at --replace \
'm4_include([dbmfetch03.at])' ""
'';
enableParallelBuilding = true;
configureFlags = [ "--enable-libgdbm-compat" ];
installPhase = ''
mkdir -p $out/lib
cp .libs/libgdbm.so.3 $out/lib/
cp .libs/libgdbm.so.3.0.0 $out/lib/
cp .libs/libgdbm_compat.so.3 $out/lib/
cp .libs/libgdbm_compat.so.3.0.0 $out/lib/
'';
# create symlinks for compatibility
postInstall = ''
install -dm755 $out/include/gdbm
(
cd $out/include/gdbm
ln -s ../gdbm.h gdbm.h
ln -s ../ndbm.h ndbm.h
ln -s ../dbm.h dbm.h
)
'';
meta = with lib; {
description = "GNU dbm key/value database library";
longDescription = ''
GNU dbm (or GDBM, for short) is a library of database functions that
use extensible hashing and work similar to the standard UNIX dbm.
These routines are provided to a programmer needing to create and
manipulate a hashed database.
The basic use of GDBM is to store key/data pairs in a data file.
Each key must be unique and each key is paired with only one data
item.
The library provides primitives for storing key/data pairs,
searching and retrieving the data by its key and deleting a key
along with its data. It also support sequential iteration over all
key/data pairs in a database.
For compatibility with programs using old UNIX dbm function, the
package also provides traditional dbm and ndbm interfaces.
'';
homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/gdbm/";
license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
platforms = platforms.all;
maintainers = [ maintainers.vrthra ];
};
};
bzip2-compat = bzip2.overrideAttrs ( old: rec {
postPhases = [ "linkCompatPhase" ];
linkCompatPhase = ''
ln -s $out/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.6 $out/lib/libbz2.so.1.0
'';
});
in
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
pname = "vmware-player";
version = "16.1.1-17801498";
buildInputs = [ bash libxslt libxml2 libuuid gdbm3 readline lzma bzip2-compat cups ];
nativeBuildInputs = [ python3 sqlite vmware-player-unpack-env autoPatchelfHook ];
src = fetchurl {
url = "https://download3.vmware.com/software/player/file/VMware-Player-${version}.x86_64.bundle";
name = "vmware-player-src";
sha256 = "1zqha24s91al365afc6j0djrckkddhm476ypqp3mxqbkpiqim6nf";
};
vmwareBootstrapConfig = writeScript "vmware-bootstrap" ''
PREFIX="/usr"
BINDIR="/usr/bin"
SBINDIR="/usr/sbin"
LIBDIR="/usr/lib"
DATADIR="/usr/share"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
DOCDIR="/usr/share/doc"
MANDIR="/usr/share/man"
INCLUDEDIR="/usr/include"
INITDIR=""
INITSCRIPTDIR="/usr/lib/systemd/scripts"
'';
unpackPhase = ''
${vmware-player-unpack-env}/bin/vmware-player-unpack-env -c "sh ${src} --extract unpacked"
'';
installPhase = ''
# determine installer version
local vmware_installer_version=$(cat "unpacked/vmware-installer/manifest.xml" | grep -oPm1 "(?<=<version>)[^<]+")
echo $vmware_installer_version
# Make install directories
mkdir -p \
$out/etc/cups \
$out/etc/thnuclnt \
$out/etc/vmware \
$out/bin \
$out/share \
$out/lib/vmware \
$out/lib/vmware-installer/$vmware_installer_version \
$out/lib/vmware-ovftool \
$out/lib/cups
cp -r \
unpacked/vmware-player-app/bin/* \
unpacked/vmware-vmx/sbin/* \
unpacked/vmware-vmx/bin/* \
$out/bin
cp -r \
unpacked/vmware-player-app/etc/cups \
$out/etc/cups
cp -r \
unpacked/vmware-player-app/extras/thnucups \
$out/etc/cups/filter
cp -r \
unpacked/vmware-player-app/extras/.thnumod \
$out/etc/thnuclnt
cp -r \
unpacked/vmware-vmx/extra/modules.xml \
$out/etc/vmware/
cp -r \
unpacked/vmware-network-editor/lib/* \
unpacked/vmware-player-app/lib/* \
unpacked/vmware-player/lib/* \
unpacked/vmware-vmx/lib/* \
unpacked/vmware-vmx/roms \
unpacked/vmware-usbarbitrator/bin \
$out/lib/vmware
# copy lib/vmware/setup
cp -r \
unpacked/vmware-player-setup/vmware-config \
$out/lib/vmware/setup
# copy lib/vmware-installer/VERSION
cp -r \
unpacked/vmware-installer/{python,sopython,vmis,vmis-launcher,vmware-installer,vmware-installer.py} \
$out/lib/vmware-installer/$vmware_installer_version
# copy lib/vmware-ovftool
cp -r \
unpacked/vmware-ovftool/* \
$out/lib/vmware-ovftool
cp -r \
unpacked/vmware-player-app/share/* \
$out/share
chmod +x \
$out/bin/* \
$out/lib/vmware/bin/* \
$out/lib/vmware/setup/* \
$out/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-gksu.so/gksu-run-helper \
$out/lib/vmware-ovftool/{ovftool,ovftool.bin} \
$out/lib/vmware-installer/$vmware_installer_version/{vmware-installer,vmis-launcher} \
$out/lib/cups/filter/* \
$out/lib/vmware-vix/setup/* \
$out/etc/thnuclnt/.thnumod
# create symlinks (replicate installer) - bin
ln -s $out/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-usbarbitrator $out/bin/vmware-usbarbitrator
# create symlinks (replicate installer) - misc
ln -s $out/lib/vmware/bin/appLoader $out/bin/vmrest
ln -s $out/lib/vmware/icu $out/etc/vmware/icu
ln -s $out/lib/vmware-ovftool/ovftool $out/bin/ovftool
# install licenses
#ln -s $out/lib/vmware-ovftool/vmware.eula "$out/share/licenses/vmware-player-app/VMware OVF Tool - EULA.txt"
#install -Dm 644 vmware-player-app/doc/open_source_licenses.txt "$out/share/licenses/vmware-player-app/VMware Player open source license.txt"
#install -Dm 644 vmware-player-app/doc/ovftool_open_source_licenses.txt "$out/share/licenses/vmware-workstation/VMware OVF Tool open source license.txt"
# install config files
install -d -m 755 $out/lib/vmware-installer/$vmware_installer_version/{lib/lib,artwork}
install -Dm 644 unpacked/vmware-vmx/extra/modules.xml $out/lib/vmware/modules/modules.xml
install -Dm 644 unpacked/vmware-installer/bootstrap $out/etc/vmware-installer/bootstrap
#install -Dm 644 $vmwareVixBootstrapConfig $out/etc/vmware-vix/bootstrap
install -Dm 644 $vmwareBootstrapConfig $out/etc/vmware/bootstrap
#install -Dm 644 $vmwareConfig $out/etc/vmware/config
#install -Dm 644 $vmwareHostdConfig $out/etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml
#install -Dm 644 $vmwareHostdDatastores $out/etc/vmware/hostd/datastores.xml
#install -Dm 644 $vmwareHostdEnvironments $out/etc/vmware/hostd/environments.xml
#install -Dm 644 $vmwareHostdProxy $out/etc/vmware/hostd/proxy.xml
#install -Dm 644 $vmwareHostdVMAutostart $out/etc/vmware/hostd/vmAutoStart.xml
#install -Dm 644 $vmwarePAMConfig $out/etc/pam.d/vmware-authd
sed \
-e "s,@@VERSION@@,$vmware_installer_version," \
-e "s,@@VMWARE_INSTALLER@@,/usr/lib/vmware-installer/$vmware_installer_version," \
-i $out/etc/vmware-installer/bootstrap
'';
}
