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The host machine has to be prepared for the build process. | The host machine has to be prepared for the build process. | ||
In the | In the evaluation for this article, a CentOS 7 amd64 machine running in vmware was used. | ||
On the machine, the nix package manager was installed via <code><nowiki>curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh</nowiki></code> as suggested on https://nixos.org/nix/ > "Get Nix". | On the machine, the nix package manager was installed via <code><nowiki>curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh</nowiki></code> as suggested on https://nixos.org/nix/ > "Get Nix". | ||
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== How to build a deb/rpm with nixpkgs == | == How to build a deb/rpm with nixpkgs == | ||
The | The following approach can be used to try out building a <code>.deb</code> package with nixpkgs: | ||
# Clone the official nixpkgs repository into <code>~/nixpkgs</code> | # Clone the official nixpkgs repository into <code>~/nixpkgs</code> | ||
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args = { | args = { | ||
diskImage = vm; | diskImage = vm; | ||
diskImageFormat = "qcow2"; | |||
src = pkgs.ncurses.src; | src = pkgs.ncurses.src; | ||
name = "ncurses-deb"; | name = "ncurses-deb"; | ||