Nixpkgs/Building RPM DEB with nixpkgs: Difference between revisions
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In the setting the author of this article used, the host machine was a CentOS 7 amd64 machine running in vmware. | In the setting the author of this article used, the host machine was a CentOS 7 amd64 machine running in vmware. | ||
On the machine, the nix package manager was installed via the | On the machine, the nix package manager was installed via the <code>curl->sh</code> provided on the nixos.org website. | ||
The configuration file | The configuration file <code>/etc/nix/nix.conf</code> was edited for the following contents: | ||
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sandbox = false | sandbox = false | ||
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The author used a simple approach: | The author used a simple approach: | ||
1. Clone the official nixpkgs repository into | 1. Clone the official nixpkgs repository into <code>~/nixpkgs</code> | ||
2. Add a file to the nixpkgs repository | 2. Add a file to the nixpkgs repository <code>./deb.nix</code> with the following contents: | ||
(In this scenario, ncurses was built for testing the whole approach) | (In this scenario, ncurses was built for testing the whole approach) | ||
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and then this file was called: | and then this file was called: <code>nix-build ./deb.nix</code>. | ||
This loads the relevant disk images from the channel mirror and spins up the Qemu VM to build the package. | This loads the relevant disk images from the channel mirror and spins up the Qemu VM to build the package. | ||
The deb file (in this case, as we're building a deb with the expression from above) is located in ./result/debs/ after a successful build. | The deb file (in this case, as we're building a deb with the expression from above) is located in ./result/debs/ after a successful build. | ||