On 28 February 2016 at 15:28, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.fors...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 February 2016 at 15:07, Vladimír Čunát <vcu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 02/28/2016 02:59 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: >> Fetching expressions is something else than the author wants. >> Third-party binary packages for nix can be provided, and we have those >> one-click installs for that. Of course one would have to have some >> package manager on the system already (Nix in this case), which is >> considered a large disadvantage by them. > > Oh, I didn't know that one-click installer packages could be made by > third parties. I'll read the manpage now.
I looked at "man nix-install-package" and the One-click installation section in the NixOS manual, http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-nix-install-package. Neither source made me understand how to _create_ a .nixpkg file. The manual described the internals of the .nixpkg file though. If one would have to install Hydra to build .nixpkg files(?), not good. I think it should be as simple as: nix create-nixpkgs myapp # myapp is an attribute referring to a derivation Then upload the resulting .nixpkg to a webserver. Unfortunately, I don't have skills nor time to implement that. BTW, nix-install-package manpage refers to "manifests". Didn't nix deprecate manifests some time ago? Best regards, Bjørn Forsman _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev