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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-05-26T15·02+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-05-26T15·02+0200
commit62a6eeb1f3da0a5954ad2da54c454eb7fc1c6e5d (patch)
treecb1fec96ce5ae6ad830a4afe65578210c0e1c778 /tests/dependencies.builder2.sh
parent39d72640c2459dc2fa689bfe8b756ee193f7b98a (diff)
Make the Nix search path declarative
Nix search path lookups like <nixpkgs> are now desugared to ‘findFile
nixPath <nixpkgs>’, where ‘findFile’ is a new primop. Thus you can
override the search path simply by saying

  let
    nixPath = [ { prefix = "nixpkgs"; path = "/my-nixpkgs"; } ];
  in ... <nixpkgs> ...

In conjunction with ‘scopedImport’ (commit
c273c15cb13bb86420dda1e5341a4e19517532b5), the Nix search path can be
propagated across imports, e.g.

  let

    overrides = {
      nixPath = [ ... ] ++ builtins.nixPath;
      import = fn: scopedImport overrides fn;
      scopedImport = attrs: fn: scopedImport (overrides // attrs) fn;
      builtins = builtins // overrides;
    };

  in scopedImport overrides ./nixos
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