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Before this change, a Dhall package like the Prelude would be
encoded as a record with one field per supported version. Then
downstream packages would specify which package to override
by selecting a different record field.
The problem with that approach is that it did not provide an
easy way to override a package to a version other than the default
ones supplied by Nixpkgs. Normally you would use the `.override`
method for this purpose, but the `override` method added by
`buildDhall{Directory,GitHub}Package` is clobbered by the
`override` method added by `callPackage` in
`./pkgs/top-level/dhall-packages.nix`.
The solution is to add a separate `.overridePackage` method which is
essentially the exact same as `.override`, except that it is no
longer clobbered by `callPackage`. This `.overridePackage` method
allows one to override the arguments supplied to
`buildDhall{Directory,GitHub}Package`, making it easier to specify
package versions outside of the ones supported by Nixpkgs..
This also includes a change to only build one (preferred) version of each
package (instead of multiple supported versions per package), in order to
minimize the maintenance burden for the Dhall package set.
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Nix
26 lines
616 B
Nix
{ buildDhallPackage, lib }:
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# This is a minor variation on `buildDhallPackage` that splits the `code`
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# argument into `src` and `file` in such a way that you can easily override
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# the `file`
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#
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# This function is used by `dhall-to-nixpkgs` when given a directory
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lib.makePackageOverridable
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( { # Arguments passed through to `buildDhallPackage`
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name
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, dependencies ? []
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, source ? false
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, src
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, # The file to import, relative to the root directory
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file ? "package.dhall"
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}:
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buildDhallPackage {
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inherit name dependencies source;
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code = "${src}/${file}";
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}
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)
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