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author | Kevin Cox <kevincox@kevincox.ca> | 2020-11-05 09:12:28 -0500 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-11-05 09:12:28 -0500 |
commit | e371443a1e663d385b78d9f47b6a49f2620698e2 (patch) | |
tree | 6ce4e595fb9165c77408f48c57d1f59d59b9a0c8 /pkgs/stdenv | |
parent | de57e3b630bad2626fbd569825cd6fd0d53d524d (diff) | |
parent | 4a26f177c93099e551ed5cd949a89f631da53a52 (diff) |
Merge pull request #101833 from wamserma/allow-via-env
stdenv/check-meta: add hint to NIXPKGS_ALLOW_* for unfree/broken/…
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/stdenv')
-rw-r--r-- | pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix index c06f17b6fc19..b93ea558eac2 100644 --- a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix +++ b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix @@ -88,13 +88,28 @@ let broken-outputs = remediateOutputsToInstall; unknown-meta = x: ""; }; + remediation_env_var = allow_attr: { + Unfree = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE"; + Broken = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN"; + UnsupportedSystem = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_SYSTEM"; + }.${allow_attr}; + remediation_phrase = allow_attr: { + Unfree = "unfree packages"; + Broken = "broken packages"; + UnsupportedSystem = "packages that are unsupported for this system"; + }.${allow_attr}; remediate_whitelist = allow_attr: attrs: '' - a) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set + a) To temporarily allow ${remediation_phrase allow_attr}, you can use an environment variable + for a single invocation of the nix tools. + + $ export ${remediation_env_var allow_attr}=1 + + b) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set { nixpkgs.config.allow${allow_attr} = true; } in configuration.nix to override this. - b) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add + c) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add { allow${allow_attr} = true; } to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix. ''; |