On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:26:29PM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: > Tony White wrote: > > > On 13 April 2010 23:22, Yury G. Kudryashov > > Hi Yury, > > How will this effect /root/test-firmware for say if I just wanted to > > chuck in some firmware to test, will that location no longer exist? > We can copy your /root/test-firmware into /nix/store. You'll need to nixos- > rebuild after each change in /root/test-firmware but you'll have rollbacks. The very purpose of /root/test-firmware in the udev firmware paths was explicitly to avoid building anything. It helps, if you boot a nixos cd, and for your wifi card to work you need to put a driver there. I also used it for aircrack, for temporary firmwares.
> > I don't think any one can object if you just make it work but upstream > > should IMO accept your request because the maintainer will hopefully > > understand that impure paths are generally bad when programming > > anything modular. > If I will not recieve an answer till Sunday, I'll use the second approach. I think that you could ask for a :-separated kind of paths in that variable. Regards, Lluís. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
