[Nix-dev] hardware.enableAllFirmware doesn't work

[Arie Middelkoop]

On 14-02-12 05:56, James Cook wrote:
> This fixed it for me:
> apply = list: pkgs.buildEnv {
> + ignoreCollisions = true;
>
> Even with the above change, I think you get ugly warnings about the
> collisions.

Seems to me the best solution for now, although I guess that the order 
in which the firmwares appear in the list then matters. That's nasty.

Another option would be to only enable ignoreCollisions when 
enableAllFirmware is set, and then add the allFirmware to the beginning 
(or end...) of the list. This complicates the code though.

Alternatively, I could perhaps delete all the firmware in the non-free 
package that already exists in the kernel, with something like:

 > paths = `find -type=file ${kernel}/lib/firmware`
 > for path in paths ; do
 >   rm -f "$out/$path"
 > done

in the postInstall hook of the non-free package. Does not seem very 
appealing to me either.

Arie