nix-community
Better way to update electron hashes.
Currently dream2nix will crash as soon as the binary hashes for a given minor version are missing in /overrides/nodejs/default.nix
Other problems: The error is different if a the major version if missing completely, vs. only the minor version of the hash in dream2nix is wrong.
related: https://github.com/nix-community/dream2nix/issues/211
Possible solution:
- put electron hash map in separate file (JSON)
- provide script which updates the hash for each electron version (keeping only the latest bugfix version of each minor version)
- raise better error if electron version is missing on how to update
- (provide interface to temporarily add electron hashes, so forking dream2nix is not necessary)
I'm curious, is it specific to electron? Why don't you have similar issues for all packages? (at least those that need patch)
I'm curious, is it specific to electron? Why don't you have similar issues for all packages? (at least those that need patch)
We have it in several places I think, but so far electron was the one hurting frequently.
So I guess we should try to find a generic fix right? Also, would it make sense when a library does not have any up-to-date derivation in nixpkgs to just try to use the existing derivation + update the source? This way when libraries do minimal updates it won't need a whole new package.