[Nix-dev] nix expressions for RPM?

Eelco Dolstra eelco at cs.uu.nl
Mon Mar 21 19:12:33 CET 2005


Hi,

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:49:20 +0100
Armijn Hemel <armijn at uulug.nl> wrote:

> Eelco mentioned that RPM has been nixified. I don't see an expression
> for in nixpkgs though. If there are any, where are they?

So I lied ;-)  Turns out that the fill-disk-worker.sh script just uses
/bin/rpm to install RPMs.

It *would* be much better if we had an RPM build in Nix since then we
would have control over the version of RPM (which hasn't caused problems
yet, but it might).

-- 
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco



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