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nix flake show support + remove flake-utils

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Open nix flake show support + remove flake-utils

andystopia/ghc-wasm-meta:master into master

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Open Andrew Day requested to merge andystopia/ghc-wasm-meta:master into master 2 months ago

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Motivation

I ran the nix shell command given in the README on darwin aarch64 like so:

nix shell 'gitlab:haskell-wasm/ghc-wasm-meta?host=gitlab.haskell.org'
> error: attribute 'aarch64-darwin-gmp' missing

Ah, but I see from the flake.nix that aarch64 darwin should be supported, so I execute

nix flake show 'gitlab:haskell-wasm/ghc-wasm-meta?host=gitlab.haskell.org'
> error: expected a derivation

Huh.

This is unexpected, but I found: https://github.com/nix-community/nur-packages-template/pull/75/files, which gives the solution, so I implemented it here, but I couldn't figure out flake-utils, so I implemented my usual solution and I removed flake-utils. If this is too heavy handed, please let me know :)

Solution

nix flake show appears to need legacyPackages and packages, so I added those in my implementation.

The following command will now successfully display the available packages:

nix flake show

Drawbacks

One terse line of code is required to replace flake-utils.

Out of Scope

nix shell 'gitlab:haskell-wasm/ghc-wasm-meta?host=gitlab.haskell.org'

This line doesn't execute on aarch64 darwin still (no change), but nix shell 'gitlab:haskell-wasm/ghc-wasm-meta?host=gitlab.haskell.org#all_9_12' seems to work. nix build .#all_9_12 works locally as well.