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authorBenno Fünfstück <benno.fuenfstueck@gmail.com>2015-08-15 13:16:00 +0200
committerBenno Fünfstück <benno.fuenfstueck@gmail.com>2015-08-15 13:16:00 +0200
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Merge pull request #6272 from NixOS/types-path-better-error
types.nix: better error message for non-paths
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/types.nix b/lib/types.nix
index a7f9bf1946e6..27b653ebb6c7 100644
--- a/lib/types.nix
+++ b/lib/types.nix
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@ rec {
     path = mkOptionType {
       name = "path";
       # Hacky: there is no ‘isPath’ primop.
-      check = x: builtins.substring 0 1 (toString x) == "/";
+      # need to check isString first because otherwise toString throws an error.
+      check = x: builtins.isString x && builtins.substring 0 1 (toString x) == "/";
       merge = mergeOneOption;
     };