as a workaround you can use fetchFromGitHub or
fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/${commit}.tar.gz";
2017-03-02 9:01 GMT+02:00 Ganesh Sittampalam <gan...@earth.li>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to maintain a set of development environments using
> nix-shell. For each environment, I want to keep them pinned at a
> particular git revision of nixpkgs until I explicitly upgrade that
> environment, so I can check that everything still works properly.
>
> I used to manage this manually with a comment on myEnvFun environments.
> While migrating them to nix-shell, I learnt that I can use "import from
> derivation" for this instead and have it expressed within the nix language:
>
> {
> env =
> let pkgs =
> import
> (with import <nixpkgs> {} ;
> fetchgit {
> url = <nixpkgs>;
> rev = "264d42b";
> sha256 =
> "19i77afcns8mf88vkxvm3jvkzdkf5x8p8kxnnivhd9l4kslkq3v5";
> }) {};
>
> in with pkgs ; stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
> name = "haskell-http-ghc710";
> buildInputs = [ stdenv pkgconfig gcc binutils
> haskell.compiler.ghc7102
> haskellPackages.cabal-install
> zlib ];
> };
> }
>
> When I instantiate this, e.g. with
>
> nix-instantiate -I nixpkgs=<some nixpkgs checkout> demo.nix -A env
>
> it takes about 5-10s and prints out this message, though it does complete:
>
> warning: dumping very large path (> 256 MiB); this may run out of memory
>
> I'm aware that this error is typically associated with trying to import
> large files or large trees into the store:
>
> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/358
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/12243
>
> I guess that in this case the large tree is the import of the nixpkgs
> tree. Is there any work around or better way to achieve what I want? The
> time taken is annoying particularly because I have a lot of these shells
> that I sometimes want to rebuild all together.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ganesh
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