[Nix-dev] How do I install firefox nightly or any other program that gets daily updates?

[Bjørn Forsman]

(Again, please copy the list.)

On 9 March 2015 at 00:15, CodeHero <codehero at nerdpol.ch> wrote:
> Okay. I actually got the wrapper to stop complaining, but now firefox says
> "Could not find the Mozilla runtime." There are certain runtime files in the
> firefox nightly archive, but I'm not sure what to do with them. Do I copy
> them into nix store? And if yes, how?

In shell snippets (buildPhase, installPhase etc.) you can copy things
to the nix store path of the derivation by using the $out variable.
For example, "cp -r . $out/the-whole-source-tree".

Maybe the firefox expression in nixpkgs can be of help, to figure out
what to copy where?

- Bjørn