Running nix-index fails around bigmemory package

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

❯ nix-index
+ querying available packages
error: querying available packages failed
caused by: nix-env failed with error: nix-env failed with exit code 1:
error: value is null while a set was expected

       at /nix/store/x3b24m65sn4r8ciyza1cbwr431320aal-nixpkgs/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix:514:19:

          513|     pbdZMQ = lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [ pkgs.darwin.binutils ];
          514|     bigmemory = [ pkgs.libuuid.dev ];
             |                   ^
          515|     clustermq = [  pkgs.pkg-config ];
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)

Diagnostic info

I'm on macOS ARM, using nix-darwin with nix-index installed through home-manager.

❯ nix-index -V
Nixpkgs Files Indexer 0.1.3

[Artturin]

Not a nix-index issue, report in nixpkgs and ping the maintainers for r-modules

Its because libuuid is null on non-linux, they probably shouldn't be using .dev and instead letting it be taken care of automatically

[Kayla Firestack]

NixOS/nixpkgs#202645