Mateusz PiotrowskiandGitHub
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tar(1) on FreeBSD does not use standard output or input when the -f flag is not provided. Instead, it defaults to /dev/sa0 on FreeBSD. Make this tar invocation a bit more robust and explicitly tell tar(1) to use standard output. This is one of the issues discovered while porting Nix to FreeBSD. It has been tested and committed locally to FreeBSD ports: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/sysutils/nix/Makefile?revision=550026&view=markup#l108
Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
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