The nixpkgs documentation mentions how to update out of tree plugins but
one problem is that it requires a nixpkgs clone.
This makes it more convenient.
I've had the need to generate vim plugins and lua overlays for other
projects unrelated to nix and this will make updates easier (aka just
run `nix run nixpkgs#vimPluginsUpdater -- --proc=1` or with the legacy commands:
`nix-shell -p vimPluginsUpdater --run vim-plugins-updater`.
I added an optional "nixpkgs" argument to command line parser, which is the path
towards a nixpkgs checkout. By default the current folder.
update-luarocks-packages: format with black
Allows splicing to work correctly
from issue 211340
>> 3: Discourage using package sets like python3.pkgs "directly"
> I think about 8 years ago I introduced this and it has been a clear mistake. Since then this pattern was copied throughout. We should indeed go to pythonPackages and also move the helpers such as buildEnv and withPackages into the package set, like haskell already had before.
- FRidh
This change which involves creating multiple outputs for CUDA
redistributable packages.
We use a script to find out, ahead of time, the outputs each redist
package provides. From that, we are able to create multiple outputs for
supported redist packages, allowing users to specify exactly which
components they require.
Beyond the script which finds outputs ahead of time, there is some custom
code involved in making this happen. For example, the way Nixpkgs
typically handles multiple outputs involves making `dev` the default
output when available, and adding `out` to `dev`'s
`propagatedBuildInputs`.
Instead, we make each output independent of the others. If a user wants
only to include the headers found in a redist package, they can do so by
choosing the `dev` output. If they want to include dynamic libraries,
they can do so by specifying the `lib` output, or `static` for static
libraries.
To avoid breakages, we continue to provide the `out` output, which
becomes the union of all other outputs, effectively making the split
outputs opt-in.
1. Clarify what is the reason for importing and to where it saves
2. Clarify that packages.sqlite is a temporary file
3. Link to section about native dependencies from first mention of ql.nix
* nixpkgs manual, doc Python: render interpreters in a table
The current paragraph presenting Python interpreters is verbose and hinders clarity. The information provided is well suited to be rendered as a table.
Co-authored-by: Shahar "Dawn" Or <mightyiampresence@gmail.com>
* nixpkgs manual, doc Python: fix typos in interpreters' table
* nixpkgs manual, doc Python: update header in interpreters' table
* nixpkgs manual, doc Python: get rid of empty block code workaround in interpreters' table
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Co-authored-by: Shahar "Dawn" Or <mightyiampresence@gmail.com>
Conflicts:
- pkgs/tools/networking/shadowfox/default.nix between e989daa65f and 1c29673fcc
- pkgs/tools/networking/wuzz/default.nix between 7d80417710 and 1c29673fcc
In 787af0f79f
I had to change ${go-modules} to $goModules to allow overrideAttrs to work;
However, env vars cannot contain -, so i had to change go-modules too.
This in turn broke nix-update because it uses the go-modules attr.
Instead of making nix-update more complicated, make go-modules naming match cargoDeps.
`fd --type f | xargs sd '\bgo-modules\b' 'goModules'`
and revert change to pkgs/applications/misc/dstask/default.nix
and pkgs/servers/http/dave/default.nix
and pkgs/os-specific/darwin/plistwatch/default.nix
release note added
also updates nixdoc to 2.3.0. the nixdoc update is not a separate commit
because that would leave the manual build broken for one commit,
potentially breaking bisects and rebases.
This is actually relatively complicated to achieve, since it involves
overriding GHC on e.g. aarch64-darwin, so the FAQ entry seems warranted.
It's also a good exercise to me, since it demonstrates some problems
with the overriding infrastructure, i.e. that it has a tendency to
inherit the pkgs fixpoint from prev. An example of this problem is
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/235960, but it has different
manifestations as well. Awareness of this will also help writing the
other sections on overriding.
How complicated it is, seems to be further incentive to go ahead with
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/239548 as well.
nixos-render-docs does not support this, and since the examples are
small there isn't that much value in callouts here. change them to
simple MD code blocks and lists instead.
skipping heading levels (eg from # to ###, or starting at ###) is legal
in pandoc, but not in nixos-render-docs. pandoc acts as though section
levels *were* consecutive, nixos-render-docs prefers to tell people not
to do that kind of thing because it can make documents more fragile.
