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Re: Importing package-overlay-for-Nix - How?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Importing package-overlay-for-Nix - How? |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:59:49 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
> How do I use it
>
> guix import nix
>
> in order to import those packages?
This importer has bitrot; it could probably be salvaged with some effort
from someone knowledgeable about today’s Nix (i.e., not me :-)):
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/32339
Another option would be to delete it altogether: it only contributes a
tiny bit to the packaging effort. Only a tiny bit because the difficult
part is written as Bash and/or Nix functions, which the importer cannot
“translate”.
Let’s look at the examples you give:
> https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware/blob/master/bcm2835.nix
Could be imported, minus ‘preConfigure’.
> https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware/blob/master/bootloader.nix
This is not a package but a NixOS “module” (akin to a Guix service
type).
> https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware/blob/master/default.nix
This looks like a package collection (obfuscated, though).
> https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware/blob/master/netboot.nix
Not a package but a “module” for a custom initrd.
> https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware/tree/master/nix
Not sure what that is.
In short, the importer would save you 2mn of typing for the first file,
little more.
Thanks,
Ludo’.