boot-clj (pkgs.boot) tries to download JAR at runtime, cannot be used by builder

[charles-dyfis-net]

Issue description

The boot package -- a build tool for Clojure -- cannot actually be used by any sandboxed Nix builder, because it tries to refer to a copy of its own JARs located in a Maven repository expected to be under the current user's home directory.

Ping: @ragnard

Steps to reproduce

let
  pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {};
  boot = pkgs.boot;
in
pkgs.runCommand "nixbld-bootclj-test-fail" {} ''
  ${boot}/bin/boot help
''

Fails as follows:

building '/nix/store/vxr79y1ck9vvkdmbvr1h5xkjda2g5770-nixbld-bootclj-test-fail.drv'...
Downloading https://github.com/boot-clj/boot/releases/download/2.7.2/boot.jar...
Exception in thread "main" java.net.UnknownHostException: github.com
        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:184)
        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(SSLSocketImpl.java:666)
        at sun.security.ssl.BaseSSLSocketImpl.connect(BaseSSLSocketImpl.java:173)
        at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:180)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:463)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:558)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(HttpsClient.java:264)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(HttpsClient.java:367)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:191)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect0(HttpURLConnection.java:1156)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:1050)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:177)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1564)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1492)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:263)
        at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1045)
        at Boot.download(Boot.java:176)
        at Boot.install(Boot.java:227)
        at Boot.main(Boot.java:248)
builder for '/nix/store/vxr79y1ck9vvkdmbvr1h5xkjda2g5770-nixbld-bootclj-test-fail.drv' failed with exit code 1
error: build of '/nix/store/vxr79y1ck9vvkdmbvr1h5xkjda2g5770-nixbld-bootclj-test-fail.drv' failed

Technical details

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 4.14.83, NixOS, 18.09.1420.5d4a1a3897e (Jellyfish)
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.1.3
• channels(root): "nixos-18.09.1420.5d4a1a3897e"
• channels(chaduffy): ""
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

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