[Nix-dev] installing a locally modified package / undefined variable in maintainers

[Roger Qiu]

Try removing `simons`.
On 03/08/2016 11:56 PM, "Roger Qiu" <roger.qiu at matrix.ai> wrote:

> It appears `simons` is no longer defined?
> On 03/08/2016 11:52 PM, "Roland Koebler" <rk-list at simple-is-better.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I'm using Nix on Debian 8 (and I really like Nix, thanks!).
>> For testing, I'm trying to install several different Python3-versions.
>>
>> In addition to Python 3.4 and 3.5 (as described in my other mail), I'm
>> trying
>> to build and install Python 3.2.3 (which is not in nixpkgs) for testing.
>> Building works, but installing fails with
>>
>>     error: undefined variable ‘simons’ at
>> /home/user/.../pkgs/python3.2.3/default.nix:103:50
>>
>> The line in default.nix is:
>>
>>     maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ simons chaoflow cstrahan
>> ];
>>
>> Details:
>>
>> - Since Python 3.2.3 is not in nixpkgs, I've copied the package-files from
>>   Python 3.2.6 [1] and modified version and sha256 in default.nix:
>>
>>     version = "${majorVersion}.6";
>>     ->
>>     version = "${majorVersion}.3";
>>
>>     sha256 = "1p3vvvh3qw8avq959hdl6bq5d6r7mbhrnigqzgx6mllzh40va4hx";
>>     ->
>>     sha256 =
>> "23c16f621f21e54987079765c060196cbe50235c7867147c6126d433054b1754";
>>
>> - Then, I've added a custom-packages.nix (according to [2]):
>>
>>     { system ? builtins.currentSystem }:
>>
>>     let
>>         pkgs = import <nixpkgs> { inherit system; };
>>         callPackage = pkgs.lib.callPackageWith (pkgs // pkgs.xlibs);
>>     in
>>     rec {
>>         python323 = callPackage ./pkgs/python3.2.3 {};
>>     }
>>
>> - Now, I could build it with:
>>
>>     $ nix-build custom-packages.nix -A python323
>>
>> - But installing fails
>>
>>     $ nix-env -f custom-packages.nix -iA python323
>>     installing ‘mypython3-3.2.3’
>>     error: undefined variable ‘simons’ at
>> /home/user/.../pkgs/python3.2.3/default.nix:103:50
>>
>>
>> Could you tell me what I've done wrong?
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> /nix/store/...-nixpkgs/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/3.2/
>> [2]
>> https://sandervanderburg.blogspot.de/2014/07/managing-private-nix-packages-outside.html
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>> Roland
>>
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