Install from NixOS channel about lorri HOT 9 CLOSED

I installed it with with the following overlay

~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays/lorri.nix:

self: super: {
  lorri =
    let src =
      (super.fetchFromGitHub {
        owner = "target";
        repo = "lorri";
        rev = "e943fa403234f1a5e403b6fdc112e79abc1e29ba";
        sha256 = "1ar7clza117qdzldld9qzg4q0wr3g20zxrnd1s51cg6gxwlpg7fa";
      });
    in super.callPackage src { inherit src; };
}

from lorri.

For now we are on a rolling-release schedule via lorri self-upgrade, which is a small wrapper around nix-env (see https://github.com/target/lorri#upgrading). We’ll migrate to semver (and push it to nixpkgs) once we stabilize the interface and functionality, but we want to be able to make fast iterations for now.

from lorri.

@sveitser Your solution looks good! But after I home-manager switch no lorri executable appears. How do I get home-manager to recognize the overlay?

from lorri.

@matthew-piziak I thought overlays put into ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays would be applied automatically but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I think this should work in configuration.nix or home.nix.

nixpkgs.overlays = [
  (import ./path/to/lorri.nix) 
];

from lorri.

Aw, I tried that too, with a fully qualified path as well. No dice. 😢 😕

from lorri.

Hmm. Did you add lorri to home.packages ?

from lorri.

Yeah, I added pkgs = import <nixpkgs> and home.packages = [ pkgs.lorri ];

from lorri.

What if you apply the overlay in configuration.nix and add lorri to environment.systemPackages ?

I'm using this

https://github.com/sveitser/nixconfig/blob/master/pc-common.nix#L20
https://github.com/sveitser/nixconfig/blob/master/home-nixpkgs/home.nix#L26
https://github.com/sveitser/nixpkgs-overlays/blob/71fd604a7ed4bb0c0f260c1fa6d3dd7f73e17ab1/lorri.nix

from lorri.

That did it! Yes! Thank you for bearing with me. :)

Now it's failing with a cargo error, but that's something I can take look into myself. I'm just happy my configuration is picking it up.

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