[Nix-dev] I'd like to package 'python-qscintilla2' from Debian. How should I do that?

[Kirill Elagin]

I believe this page is the most useful one:
https://nixos.org/wiki/Create_and_debug_nix_packages.

On Tue Nov 11 2014 at 22:41:03 Daniel Hlynskyi <abcz2.uprola at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/
> Oh, that's new manual for me, thanks!
>
> 2014-11-11 19:37 GMT+01:00 Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si>:
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>>
>>> Wiki and manual information is helpfull, but not enlighting. I'll start
>>> there, but maybe someone can point me to better docs/examples on package
>>> process?
>>>
>>
>> Just making sure, two manuals to read:
>>
>> - http://nixos.org/nix/manual/
>> - http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/
>>
>>
>>> In particular:
>>> - is there simple way to convert existing Debian (or Arch/AUR) package
>>> to Nix?
>>>
>>
>> No.
>>
>>
>>> - testing package isolated to system
>>>
>>
>> Make sure you enable chroot builds and you're done (on Linux, OSX is a
>> bit tricky at the moment)
>>
>>
>>> - nix derivation syntax and semantics (from scratch and for dummies)
>>>
>>
>> http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#chap-writing-nix-expressions
>>
>>
>>> - nix derivation workflow patterns for dummies
>>> - nix naming and versioning patterns for dummies
>>>
>>
>> http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-conventions
>>
>>
>>
>>> - maintaining
>>>
>>
>> We don't have much on that. Make sure you add yourself as maintainer and
>> respond to build failures and bug reports.
>>
>> I admit that documentation about Nix language and quickstart for
>> packaging is not the best - but planned to be improved.
>>
>> Domen
>>
>
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