devbox shell wrapper fails when mktemp is installed in nix profile

[bketelsen]

On an M1 mac with nix, my nix profile already has mktemp installed. The devbox shell wrapper is assuming the non-gnu version of mktemp, and fails with the cryptic error:

❯ devbox init
mktemp: too few X's in template ‘devbox’
→ Downloading version 0.0.2...
✘ Command failed (exit code 23): curl --fail --silent --location --output /devbox_0.0.2_darwin_arm64.tar.gz https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox/releases/download/0.0.2/devbox_0.0.2_darwin_arm64.tar.gz

Google led me to a stackexchange answer that seems to be relevant.

I messed with the devbox shell script to try to force it to use the mac mktemp but didn't get far. Wanted to report this in case others had similar troubles.

[loreto]

Thanks @bketelsen, looking into it. Will report when fixed!

[bketelsen]

sweet! can't wait to ease some of the nix pain with a helpful wrapper.

[vladkosarev]

I got a similar error in Void Linux running in WSL2

$ devbox init
/usr/local/bin/devbox: line 225: arch: readonly variable
mktemp: too few X's in template ‘devbox’
→ Downloading version 0.0.2...
✘ Command failed (exit code 22): curl --fail --silent --location --output /devbox_0.0.2_linux_.tar.gz https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox/releases/download/0.0.2/devbox_0.0.2_linux_.tar.gz

[loreto]

@bketelsen @vladkosarev I believe this should be fixed now. Could you try re-installing with:

curl -fsSL https://get.jetpack.io/devbox | bash

And seeing if it works now?

[loreto]

Closing since it's now working for other users that reported similar issues, but feel free to reopen if you run into it again.

[bketelsen]

works as advertised, thanks for the super quick fix!