Comprising
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My preferred packages for day-to-day operation on Linux (NixOS) and Darwin (vanilla nixpkgs installation)
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Some derivations that aren't part of my user profile but that I use a lot anyway
$ cd $HOME
$ git clone [email protected]:telent/nix-local .nixpkgs
$ nix-env -r -iA nixpkgs.desktop
I don't want to maintain a local fork of the nixpkgs repo with my personal packages, at least unless and until I think it's worth trying to get them merged.
Instead I use packageOverrides. packageOverrides is (as far as I
can work out) a function that should accept a set of packages and
return another set of packages: nixpkgs calls it with the set of all
available packages and merges whatever it returns onto the same set.
There is a config.nix file in this repo. If you already have a
$HOME/.nixpkgs/config.nix then merge the contents of this one with
that one. If not, you can tell Nix to use this one by setting
$NIXPKGS_CONFIG to point to it, or (may be easier) by creating a
symlink from $HOME/.nixpkgs to this repo.
I started by running
`nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A npm2nix`/bin/npm2nix package.json node-packages.generated.nix
but the generated default.nix seems to need significant manual editing:
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first it gave me
Assertion failed: (!s.empty()), function showId, file src/libexpr/nixexpr.cc, line 33.which seemed to be related to the definition oftarball. I replaced this withfetchFromGitHub -
the
depsdefinition in the gnerated expression produced errors about unknown attributes, so I replaced that line with
deps = (filter (v: nixType v == "derivation") (attrValues nodePackages))
Blackbox currently requires that GnuPG is on the search path and can
be invoked as gpg. This is a packaging failure which I will fix as
soon as I figure out how to.