[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 17405 - MarcWeber - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: tools/package-management/nix top-level

[Michael Raskin]

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Marc Weber wrote:
> Are you fine with me adding a link to the patch so that everyone can
> apply it on his own?
> 
> Also did you like allowing passing some patches?
> 
> So is this less intrusive enough ?
> 
> diff --git a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix/unstable.nix b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix/unstable.nix
> index 68e836b..58c1c92 100644
> --- a/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix/unstable.nix
> +++ b/pkgs/tools/package-management/nix/unstable.nix
> @@ -4,13 +4,20 @@
>  , supportOldDBs ? true
>  , nameSuffix ? ""
>  , patches ? []
> +  # eg try http://mawercer.de/~marc/debug-coercion-failures.patch to make nix output what item it found when complaining about wrong types
>  }:

We have nixCustomFun for a reason. I'd say it would be more natural to
add patch support there. I guess a bit of documentation about known
patches would be useful.
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