[Nix-dev] overriding a package

Bjørn Forsman bjorn.forsman at gmail.com
Sat Jan 31 16:20:04 CET 2015


On 31 January 2015 at 16:14, Catonano <catonano at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2015-01-31 16:10 GMT+01:00 Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>:
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>> On 31 January 2015 at 16:07, Catonano <catonano at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Try pkgs.fetchurl instead.
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>> Best regards,
>> Bjørn Forsman
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> error: anonymous function at "/home/me/.nixpkgs/config.nix":1:1 called with
> unexpected argument ‘pkgs’, at
> "/nix/store/i99ncvcy3p4awz7b0m35gcknkizzrpag-nixpkgs-15.05pre55083.597373b/nixpkgs/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix":67:14

I don't think you placed the "pkgs.fetchurl" where I meant. In the
code you pasted, there was only one "fetchurl". Replace that one with
"pkgs.fetchurl" (without the quotes).

- Bjørn


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