python-namebench: fix error preventing it from starting

namebench expects to be run from its own source tree (it uses relative
paths to various resources), make it work.

The current version fails like this:

  $ ./result/bin/namebench.py
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/nix/store/04d29llycr5xcxplfv4gn556nzm1mrl7-python2.7-namebench-1.0.5/bin/.namebench.py-wrapped", line 46, in <module>
      (options, supplied_ns, global_ns, regional_ns) = config.GetConfiguration()
    File "/nix/store/04d29llycr5xcxplfv4gn556nzm1mrl7-python2.7-namebench-1.0.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libnamebench/config.py", line 27, in GetConfiguration
      (configured_options, global_ns, regional_ns) = ProcessConfigurationFile(options)
    File "/nix/store/04d29llycr5xcxplfv4gn556nzm1mrl7-python2.7-namebench-1.0.5/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libnamebench/config.py", line 100, in ProcessConfigurationFile
      general = dict(config.items('general'))
    File "/nix/store/z6vp5aix4ks1zdjdry7v7dahg8dd02sy-python-2.7.10/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 642, in items
      raise NoSectionError(section)
  ConfigParser.NoSectionError: No section: 'general'

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 47fe45b97600..686772645872 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -7708,6 +7708,12 @@ let
     # error: invalid command 'test'
     doCheck = false;
 
+    # namebench expects to be run from its own source tree (it uses relative
+    # paths to various resources), make it work.
+    postInstall = ''
+      sed -i "s|import os|import os; os.chdir(\"$out/namebench\")|" "$out/bin/namebench.py"
+    '';
+
     meta = {
       homepage = http://namebench.googlecode.com/;
       description = "Find fastest DNS servers available";