Or, the goal: How can I take a single package from Nix unstable in a declarative manner?
I'm new to NixOS and currently trying to install a newer version of Consul than the default 0.5.2
of my NixOS version (latest stable). I'm attempting this by overriding the derivative in my /etc/nix/configuration.nix
.
I'd like to keep running stable, but I found unstable had the version of Consul that I wanted (0.7.0
) already, and so I decided to use this package's attributes as a starting point to override https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/servers/consul/default.nix
I copied it for most part into my configuration.nix
, here are the relevant sections:
nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs: rec {
consul = pkgs.lib.overrideDerivation pkgs.consul (attrs: rec {
version = "0.7.0";
name = "consul-${version}";
rev = "v${version}";
goPackagePath = "github.com/hashicorp/consul";
src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
owner = "hashicorp";
repo = "consul";
inherit rev;
sha256 = "04h5y5vixjh9np9lsrk02ypbqwcq855h7l1jlnl1vmfq3sfqjds7";
};
# Keep consul.ui for backward compatability
passthru.ui = pkgs.consul-ui;
});
};
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
vim
which
telnet
consul-ui
consul-alerts
consul-template
consul
];
I'm running nix-build (Nix) 1.11.2
which throws:
$ nixos-rebuild switch
building Nix...
building the system configuration...
error: cannot coerce a set to a string, at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:19:7
(use ‘--show-trace’ to show detailed location information)
When I look at line 19
it's where name
is set to "consul-${version}"
.
Why there is type-coercion going on here? Any tips will be greatly appreciated!
I'm also wondering if there is a better way to run just a single package in unstable, yet doing so declaratively from configuration.nix
, rather than imperatively?