Hi,
I sometimes have problems with unavailable sources.
I think we should have the possibility to express mirrors:
fetchurl {
urls = [
ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/dist/i386-linux-2.0.4/fpc-2.0.4.i386-linux.tar
ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/lang/pascal/fpc/dist/i386-linux-2.0.4/fpc-2.0.4.i386-linux.tar
];
sha256 =
"0b2szv2anbf58h4i5mlph93afv9qdx6i0jqggba04d3anjbl9gfy";
};
I thought that nix.cs.uu.nl mirrored all sources automatically, but i
seems not to do so always.
Second, sometimes I want to try an old version, but this is not easily
possible because we destructively overwrite Nix expressions. I can go
check SVN of course, but maybe we can expresses multiple versions in the
same expression. I know that some versions might require different
things, but maybe we can do something like this:
----------------
currentVersion = getVersion "2.0.6" versions
versions = [
{ version = "2.0.4";
urls = [
ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/dist/i386-linux-2.0.4/fpc-2.0.4.i386-linux.tar
ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/lang/pascal/fpc/dist/i386-linux-2.0.4/fpc-2.0.4.i386-linux.tar
];
sha256 =
"0b2szv2anbf58h4i5mlph93afv9qdx6i0jqggba04d3anjbl9gfy";
}
{ version = "2.0.5";
urls = [
ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/dist/i386-linux-2.0.4/fpc-2.0.5.i386-linux.tar
ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/lang/pascal/fpc/dist/i386-linux-2.0.4/fpc-2.0.5.i386-linux.tar
];
sha256 = "xxxxxxxxxx";
}
{ version = "2.0.6";
urls = [
ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/dist/i386-linux-2.0.4/fpc-2.0.6.i386-linux.tar
ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/lang/pascal/fpc/dist/i386-linux-2.0.4/fpc-2.0.6.i386-linux.tar
];
sha256 = "xxxxxxxxxxx";
} ];
----------------
and really destructively update or create new expressions when a new
version does need different things dependencies or patches.
So we would have 1 expression for sets of versions that work.
But on the other hand, it is verbose and maybe not going to be used
much, but maybe you have some thoughts on it.
Wouter
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