[Nix-dev] User-oriented nixpkgs documentation (was: ioquake3 on nixos)

[zimbatm]

Good question. The wiki seems like the right place to me but it's read-only
now.

On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 at 11:36 Nikolay Amiantov <ab at fmap.me> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to add some documentation on how to use our ioquake3 derivation.
> This brings me to question on _where_ should I actually add it. Right
> now we have:
>
> 1. Nix manual: completely unrelated to my topic;
> 2. NixOS manual: primarily describes services and not packages and is
> NixOS-oriented, while my article can be of interest to Quake-playing Nix
> users in general;
> 3. nixpkgs manual: oriented at developers and packagers (as it itself
> points out).
>
> I would have added my article to the wiki, but AFAIK it's generally
> decided to get rid of it. So, where should I place articles like this? I
> would describe the general class of such documentation as "user-oriented
> nixpkgs manual".
>
> I have some other documentation articles in mind that I would like to
> write later (e.g. on steam-run), which go to the same category (I don't
> mean "games" ^_^).
>
> On 04/08/2016 12:28 PM, Nikolay Amiantov wrote:
> > I play ioquake3 successfully. It needs the following to work:
> >
> > 1. Extract pak0.pk3 file from the original Quake 3 Arena.
> > 2. Use Nix script like this:
> >
> > { nixpkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:
> >
> > let
> >   paks = nixpkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
> >     name = "quake3-arena";
> >     pak0 = ./baseq3/pak0.pk3; # Replace this with path to your file
> >     buildCommand = ''
> >       install -D -m644 $pak0 $out/baseq3/pak0.pk3;
> >     '';
> >   };
> > in nixpkgs.quake3wrapper {
> >   paks = [ paks nixpkgs.quake3pointrelease ];
> > }
> >
> > 3. Run `nix-build` on it: `nix-build script.nix`
> > 4. `result/bin/quake3` would run the game.
> >
> > This probably needs to be added to our manual and/or improved somehow.
>
> --
> Nikolay.
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