[Nix-dev] npm packages broken

[Luca Bruno]

Just use an older npm2nix until someone fixes it:

with import <nixpkgs> {};

(import (fetchTarball
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/1357692.tar.gz) {}).npm2nix


On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sadly, I always build npm packages locally with a user created for the
> app. Npm2nix is not usable yet afaik (I'd love to be wrong).
>
> Last I saw, someone was proposing for it to piggyback on `npm shrinkwrap`,
> which I think would be the way to go for determining version numbers. Worst
> case, the result could be used to pre-populate an npm cache and to run npm
> in a sandbox for building (possibly step by step so we can store all
> modules separately).
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016, 8:53 PM Matthew O'Gorman <mog at rldn.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Yesterday I tried to package phonegap for nixos but ran into problems.
>> It seems several of the packages in the node-package-generated.nix no
>> longer exist so npm2nix over node-packages.json fails.  Should this
>> feature be removed? If so how should I go about packaging npm software
>> for nix.
>>
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