[Nix-dev] Nix expressions for packages with complex acquisition procedures

[Graham Christensen]

You may also find the executable has secret switches to enable automated 
installation, google around and see what you might find. I don't recall 
windows format switches, but even a `--help` equivalent might do the trick.

Graham

On 03/13/2016 12:18 PM, Fabian Schmitthenner wrote:
> You can use the requireFile function, that displays a message how to
> download the file manually and use nix-prefetch-url or nix-store
> --add-fixed to add it to the nix store.
> See oraclejdk for an example of its usage (e. g. nix-build -A oraclejdk
> '<nixpkgs>')
>
> On 03/13/2016 05:11 PM, Thomas Levine wrote:
>> I want to install files that are contained in an archive. The only way I
>> know to extract the files from the archive involves clicking buttons in
>> a graphical interface. (It's a Windows installer for Qualcomm Gobi
>> firmware, and I run it in WINE.)
>>
>> I cannot simply extract these once and serve them on a web server
>> because the package has strong restrictions on redistribution; people
>> are permitted to download the package freely from a particular website,
>> but people are not permitted to redistribute the package.
>>
>> Installing it for my own use is easy enough, of course, because I can
>> just hard-code the paths to the appropriate files, but it would be
>> easier in the long-run if I put it in the upstream nixpkgs.
>>
>> Is there a typical way of handling situations like this? For example,
>> the obvious thing that comes to mind is a convenient way to specify that
>> nix should prompt you to download and extract the archive and to enter
>> the path to the resulting files on the local filesystem.
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