[Nix-dev] NIXPKGS environment variable in nixos-rebuild

[Marco Maggesi]

Hi,

I came across this old post which I'm trying to put in practice, precisely for the compilation of a latex document.

I have the following problem: I cannot get the bibtex citations.
Apparently latex is not run a second time after the bibtex.
I also tried to add

  extraFiles = [ ./hoat.bib ]

but then says:
ln: failed to create symbolic link `hoat.bib`: File exists
So, for what use extraFiles is intended for?
And how pkgs.texFunctions.runLaTeX finds the dependency on other files?

Thanks,
Marco


On Dec 8, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:

> On 12/07/2010 06:11 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> 
>> nix-env (the other nixpkgs user) uses ~/.nix-defexpr only, so I don't think
>> there is any use of NIXPKGS_ALL anywhere nowadays.
> 
> Not so, I use it all the time for building stuff outside the Nixpkgs tree.  For
> instance, for building LaTeX documents:
> 
> rec {
>  pkgs = import (builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALL") {};
> 
>  doc = pkgs.texFunctions.runLaTeX {
>    rootFile = ./doc.ltx;
>    packages = [ pkgs.pg f];
>  };
> }
> 
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