[Nix-dev] upgrades and new packages

[Arie Middelkoop]

On 05-02-12 16:40, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
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> I don't know if there's a policy for licensed commercial software (of
> which the binaries aren't freely downloadable),
> but I packaged a nice game and I learned a bit about rpath and
> binaries under nixos doing so.
> The nix expression might serve as an example for similar cases,
> although it's mostly put together from other packages.

Does the game have a demo/free limited version? If so, you could let the 
src attribute point to that one. Then, turn it into an overridable 
derivation so that you can override the attribute to your unfree binary 
via nixconfig/package overrides.

At the very least you could set src to an error message (with 
abort/throwError) instead of /tmp/mybinary.

Arie