[Nix-dev] remove manifest on nixos

Mathijs Kwik mathijs at bluescreen303.nl
Mon Dec 5 21:54:47 CET 2011


Hi Lluís,

Thanks again.
It's building

2011/12/5 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:49:26PM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>> I noticed the package "okular" can't open pdf files.
>> I found that the binary isn't linked to poppler/poppler-qt (the .nix
>> expression looks ok and uses popplerQt4 as input).
>>
>> Not sure if that's the problem, but as a first test, I would like to
>> recompile it and look at warnings in the output.
>> However, okular is already in the manifest, so reinstalling it will
>> just get this same binary version again.
>> nix-env does have a "prebuilt-only" flag, but I couldn't find "no-prebuilt".
>
> Hello Mathijs,
>
> Change the okular expression, even a little change. For example, add
> installPhase = "exit 1";
>
> Then it will build. Build it with "-K", and as it will fail you'll be able to
> check the output in the resulting directory reported by the builder
>
> Regards,
> Lluís.


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