I have done some work on packaging up pharo projects for Nix so that images
can be created in the sandboxed build environment. I am a bit stuck though.
I have a script that takes a project named and creates a specification of
all the required mcz files, recursing into dependencies:
Here is the spec for a small project, NeoJSON:
[
{ name = "ConfigurationOfNeoJSON-SvenVanCaekenberghe.20";
package = "ConfigurationOfNeoJSON-SvenVanCaekenberghe.20";
url = "
http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/Pharo/MetaRepoForPharo30/main//ConfigurationOfNeoJSON-SvenVanCaekenberghe.20.mcz
";
sha256 = "0y5yqmb2hjfya2s4a8pkrz0q6pdm01vrfhvfj5knk6slgsy8c2my"; }
{ name = "Neo-JSON-Core-SvenVanCaekenberghe.37";
package = "Neo-JSON-Core-SvenVanCaekenberghe.37";
url = "
http://mc.stfx.eu/Neo/Neo-JSON-Core-SvenVanCaekenberghe.37.mcz";;
sha256 = "054hcp1lcriby5a8gpc54gcrd9agbpjv6f0n81bk7f091n9m01z0"; }
{ name = "Neo-JSON-Tests-SvenVanCaekenberghe.36";
package = "Neo-JSON-Tests-SvenVanCaekenberghe.36";
url = "
http://mc.stfx.eu/Neo/Neo-JSON-Tests-SvenVanCaekenberghe.36.mcz";;
sha256 = "1c3nxi09l785npjypjmzcn5bhy5sswp1agj7pfqs640vg7l80l4k"; }
]
Nix then uses this to construct a package cache directory with a local copy
of each mcz file:
$ ls -1 /nix/store/41jbwrsdpcvh684ll3qqk9lcfrrvxy59-pharo-package-cache/
ConfigurationOfNeoJSON-SvenVanCaekenberghe.20.mcz
Neo-JSON-Core-SvenVanCaekenberghe.37.mcz
Neo-JSON-Tests-SvenVanCaekenberghe.36.mcz
So this looks promising: I have all the code and should be able to load it
without using the network.
However - I do in practice get an error when I try to do this. I guess
Metacello wants to access the network for some reasons I have not
anticipated.
Here is my script:
Metacello new
configuration: 'NeoJSON';
cacheRepository:
'/nix/store/rdy7wp3cx4z86wy537idkhjb0q70xzjp-pharo-package-cache/';
ignoreImage;
load.
Smalltalk saveAs: 'pharo'.
Smalltalk exitSuccess.
and my Metacello error here:
https://gist.github.com/lukego/ab105c257457e7b9a53f6378425df9a8
Any advice to make this work?
(Could I perhaps bypass Metacello entirely and just load the mcz files
directly? Guessing not...?)
