Error when building with custom nixpkgs path

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Hello,
so I’ve been on the stable branch of NixOS for … forever and tried to migrate from i3 to sway this weekend, with good results and a few rough edges that might be fixable by updating to the unstable channel plus some patches.
My problem is that I can’t get it to build this way:

>git checkout origin/nixos-unstable
>sudo nixos-rebuild boot -I nixpkgs=/home/jonas/git/nixpkgs
[...]
building '/nix/store/fivgcnmgkdpvkr61dncgfdk75867q1n5-bootstrap-tools.drv'...
Unpacking the bootstrap tools...
: not found7jsza0rlsp22fvjwybz13i89f1h0n2q9-unpack-bootstrap-tools.sh: line 5: 
builder for '/nix/store/fivgcnmgkdpvkr61dncgfdk75867q1n5-bootstrap-tools.drv' failed with exit code 127
[...]

Setting the channel and using that worked fine in the past (though currently cifs-tools can’t be built when it succeeds on Hydra … but that is probably a separate issue).
Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be?

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As it turns out, I had not searched enough: unpack-bootstrap-tools.sh fails with exit code 127 because of dos line endings · Issue #97040 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub
For work I had in my .gitconfig core.autocrlf=true. After changing it to input and cloning nixpkgs again, I now get the same cifs-tools error as on the unstable channel and that seems to be related to a custom build flag …

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Huh, might be worth looking into if we can make the build (more) independent of your .gitconfig though…

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Im the one who wrote this issue and solution and would agree with that. :smiley: Also glad that I helped someone!