[Nix-dev] upgrades and new packages

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Arie Middelkoop wrote:

> On 05-02-12 16:40, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>> [11]
>> 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.
Look at requireFile in trivial-builders.nix. Usage examples can be found in 
jdk5-oracle-linux.nix and libraries/wtk.

/tmp/mybinary does not work in chroot builds.
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Yury G. Kudryashov,
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