I want to install files that are contained in an archive. The only way I know to extract the files from the archive involves clicking buttons in a graphical interface. (It's a Windows installer for Qualcomm Gobi firmware, and I run it in WINE.)
I cannot simply extract these once and serve them on a web server because the package has strong restrictions on redistribution; people are permitted to download the package freely from a particular website, but people are not permitted to redistribute the package. Installing it for my own use is easy enough, of course, because I can just hard-code the paths to the appropriate files, but it would be easier in the long-run if I put it in the upstream nixpkgs. Is there a typical way of handling situations like this? For example, the obvious thing that comes to mind is a convenient way to specify that nix should prompt you to download and extract the archive and to enter the path to the resulting files on the local filesystem. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
