Glad that someone is interested in this package. There is a Nixpkgs branch [1] available until the pull request gets accepted.
Shea, thanks again for your help! Regards, Alexander Foremny [1] https://github.com/aforemny/nixpkgs/tree/plowshare 2012/8/30 Sergey Mironov <[email protected]>: > Thanks a lot, I missed this helpful package. > > 2012/8/30 Alexander Foremny <[email protected]>: >> Dear Shea, >> >> thank you very much. Everything works as expected now. >> >> Regards, >> Alexander Foremny >> >> PS. Forwarding to the list. Shea, sorry for the noise. >> >> 2012/8/30 Shea Levy <[email protected]>: >>> On 08/29/2012 09:20 AM, Alexander Foremny wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello Shea, >>>> >>>> thank you very much for your response! I modified my Nix expression >>>> [1]. Is this correct? >>> >>> >>> It looks like you forget to specify what to set $PATH to, I think you need >>> to specify ${curl}/bin or some such >>> >>> >>>> Is there a way to test if things are actually working? Apparently I >>>> cannot remove curl from my profile. >>> >>> >>> If you check the resultant binary (it will be a shell script if created with >>> wrapProgram), you should see $PATH getting set (or augmented) with the >>> relevant path. >>> >>> >>>>> $ nix-env -e curl >>>>> $ curl --help >>>>> Usage: curl [options...]<url> >>>>> ... >>>> >>>> The commands above prints curl's help text which I did not expect. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Alexander Foremny >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> https://github.com/aforemny/nixpkgs/blob/aed5c366944b98624411c5551f2d43becafdf44d/pkgs/tools/misc/plowshare/default.nix >>>> >>>> 2012/8/29 Shea Levy<[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Alexander, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 08/29/2012 05:27 AM, Alexander Foremny wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello list, >>>>>> >>>>>> I am currently trying to create a Nix expression for plowshare [1]. I >>>>>> got a working version [2] already, since installation is quite >>>>>> straight forward. However, as mentioned in the pull request I am >>>>>> worrying about purity. >>>>>> >>>>>> In particular the Bash script calls the curl binary. The first >>>>>> observation is that running one of plowshare's executables the curl >>>>>> binary is being found correctly. I think this is because curl is >>>>>> available in my PATH. >>>>>> >>>>>>> $ which curl >>>>>>> ~/.nix-profile/bin/curl >>>>>> >>>>>> I would have expected that this wouldn't be the case if I had removed >>>>>> curl from my environment. However, the following still yields the same >>>>>> result. >>>>>> >>>>>>> $ nix-env -e curl >>>>>>> $ which curl >>>>>>> ~/.nix-profile/bin/curl >>>>>> >>>>>> This also arises in a newly created shell and I can also execute the >>>>>> curl binary. I am guessing that curl is some kind of NixOS' standard >>>>>> environment. Is this correct? >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it considered an impurity that plowshare finds curl without >>>>>> depending on curl's derivation? If this is the case, is this impurity >>>>>> introduced by NixOS or by the Nix expression? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It's an impurity in plowshare's nix expression. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> If this is an issue, how would I solve it? Should I patch plowshare's >>>>>> Bash scripts to refer to the curl's derivation instead of `which >>>>>> curl`? Or even better, is there a wrapper for this kind of programs >>>>>> already? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> wrapProgram (available if you add makeWrapper to buildInputs) is probably >>>>> what you want. An example of how it can be used is at >>>>> >>>>> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/taxes/aangifte-2011/default.nix#L30 >>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Alexander Foremny >>>>>> >>>>>> [1] http://code.google.com/p/plowshare/ >>>>>> [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/117 >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> nix-dev mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >>>>> >>>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
