Daniel J Beauregard wrote: > Hi, > > I am a noob to NixOS and have had some plesant experiences so far. I am > looking forward to creeating my first package. In the Nixpkgs manual, it > says to add a call to the new package in pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix. > That sounds a bit intrusive - I don't want to mess around with > /etc/nixos/nixpkgs on my system because it is updated by the nix-channel > uitility and such. > > I have been looking for a way to incorporate my own test packages from a > separate directory and add it to ~/.nix-defexpr, but I don't know how to > pass stdenv as an input without incorporating into the main > all-packages.nix. Is my goal achievable? Am I missing something? Look at /etc/nixos/nixpkgs/maintainers/scripts/nix-call-package by Michael Raskin.
Typical usage nix-call-package ./default.nix. There are some optional arguments (look at the source). _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
