Building ancient nixpkgs - Revision history

imported>Ckiee: fix my github username

2022-09-04T12:02:54Z

fix my github username

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	Nix's reproducibility allows for easy building of ancient nixpkgs checkouts.		Nix's reproducibility allows for easy building of ancient nixpkgs checkouts.

	An attempt to get firefox 2.0 running can be found here: https://github.com/~~ronthecookie~~/nixpkgs/commits/2007-fixing		An attempt to get firefox 2.0 running can be found here: https://github.com/ckiee/nixpkgs/commits/2007-fixing

	== Replacing outdated nix.cs.uu.nl ==		== Replacing outdated nix.cs.uu.nl ==

imported>Rapenne-s: Mentions nix-prefetch-url to download tarballs

2022-07-05T14:00:42Z

Mentions nix-prefetch-url to download tarballs

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	<code>nix-build</code> may fail while trying to fetch a package from a 3rd-party mirror.		<code>nix-build</code> may fail while trying to fetch a package from a 3rd-party mirror.
	If this happens, you will need to search the internet for another mirror from which you can fetch the package; for certain nixpkgs versions you will need to ensure it does not force-redirect to SSL as <code>curl</code> was not built with SSL support in early versions.		If this happens, you will need to search the internet for another mirror from which you can fetch the package; for certain nixpkgs versions you will need to ensure it does not force-redirect to SSL as <code>curl</code> was not built with SSL support in early versions.

			You can manually add a tarball to the store by using <code>nix-prefetch-url</code>. You have to use the same checksum algorithm used in the nixpkgs definition with the <code>--type</code> parameter.

	[[Category:Cookbook]]		[[Category:Cookbook]]

imported>Nix: recategorize

2021-09-20T08:51:45Z

recategorize

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	Nix's reproducibility allows for easy building of ancient nixpkgs checkouts.		Nix's reproducibility allows for easy building of ancient nixpkgs checkouts.

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	<code>nix-build</code> may fail while trying to fetch a package from a 3rd-party mirror.		<code>nix-build</code> may fail while trying to fetch a package from a 3rd-party mirror.
	If this happens, you will need to search the internet for another mirror from which you can fetch the package; for certain nixpkgs versions you will need to ensure it does not force-redirect to SSL as <code>curl</code> was not built with SSL support in early versions.		If this happens, you will need to search the internet for another mirror from which you can fetch the package; for certain nixpkgs versions you will need to ensure it does not force-redirect to SSL as <code>curl</code> was not built with SSL support in early versions.

			[[Category:Cookbook]]

imported>Symphorien: Symphorien moved page Building anicent nixpkgs to Building ancient nixpkgs: typo

2021-05-23T19:42:59Z

Symphorien moved page Building anicent nixpkgs to Building ancient nixpkgs: typo

← Older revision		Revision as of 19:42, 23 May 2021
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imported>Ronthecookie: init

2021-05-17T21:47:16Z

init

New page

[[Category:Guide]]
Nix's reproducibility allows for easy building of ancient nixpkgs checkouts.

An attempt to get firefox 2.0 running can be found here: https://github.com/ronthecookie/nixpkgs/commits/2007-fixing

== Replacing outdated nix.cs.uu.nl ==

You may find that the build fails as it cannot find some tarballs. This is solved by updating the primary mirror URL to one that is still running:
<syntaxhighlight lang="shell">
for x in $(find); do sed -i 's/nix.cs.uu.nl/tarballs.nixos.org/g' "$x"; done
for x in $(find); do sed -i 's/dist\/tarballs\///g' "$x"; done
</syntaxhighlight>

You will also want to run <code>nix-build</code> with the <code>--no-substitute</code> flag to avoid any outdated caches.

== Replacing outdated package sources ==

<code>nix-build</code> may fail while trying to fetch a package from a 3rd-party mirror.
If this happens, you will need to search the internet for another mirror from which you can fetch the package; for certain nixpkgs versions you will need to ensure it does not force-redirect to SSL as <code>curl</code> was not built with SSL support in early versions.