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

[Marc Weber]

Are you fin 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
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "nix-0.13pre17232${nameSuffix}";
+let
+  vName = "nix-0.13pre17232";
+  name = "${vName}${nameSuffix}${if patches == [] then "" else "-patched"}";
+in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+
+  inherit name;
   
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://hydra.nixos.org/build/75293/download/4/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    url = "http://hydra.nixos.org/build/75293/download/4/${vName}.tar.bz2";
     sha256 = "aaea96d6dd87f8cceb2973e561d1cd0ca1beeaa0384eb91f4db09ac75d42148f";
   };
 

Marc Weber