[Nix-dev] How to help remedy build errors of Haskell packages in Nixpkgs

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 08/12/2014 03:20 PM, emil.rangden at chas.se wrote:
> The package taffybar is fixed by the author, but there is no new hackage
> release. Can cabal2nix deal with this somehow? The only thing I came up
> with was dumping a 90k patch in the nixpkgs repo, but that feels
> perverse.

What about adding something like
patches = [ (fetchpatch { ... }) ];
to the latest release?

Vlada


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