[Nix-dev] texlive-core and texlive-extra

[Mathijs Kwik]

I'm probably doing something stupid...

This is my ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix

As you can see, I tried to apply hiPrio to texLive, which boils down
to setting meta.priority to something higher.

I get this error message:

% nix-env -iA nixpkgs_sys.mathijs --show-trace


                       /home/mathijs  0
replacing old `mathijs'
installing `mathijs'
error: while evaluating the builtin function `derivationStrict':
while instantiating the derivation named `mathijs' at
`/etc/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders.nix:10:14':
while evaluating the derivation attribute `paths' at
`/etc/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/buildenv/default.nix:29:12':
cannot coerce a function to a string

What am I doing wrong?


On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Mathijs Kwik <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl> wrote:
> that sounds like it would do the trick
> I'll see how to use that
>
> Thanks
>
> 2012/1/12 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>:
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:09:13PM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I don't know a lot about tex/latex/texlive, but I'm trying to learn a bit.
>>> I need something called wrapfig.sty (emacs org-mode uses it). After
>>> some searching, I found it's part of texLiveExtra.
>>> However, when trying to install that, everything builds fine, but
>>> fails at the last step (muxing into my user profile), because of a
>>> collision between texLiveExtra and texLive itself. I need them both in
>>> my profile I think (I need the "pdflatex" command from texLive and
>>> this .sty file).
>>>
>>> Is this a known bug?
>>> What's the easiest workaround?
>>
>> I think one of the packages could have a 'meta.priority' attribute, that would
>> set out the collision.
>>
>> I saw Eelco do that once in a commit :)