modules) together in an attribute set returned by the function
"kernelPackagesFor" that takes a kernel as argument. For instance,
kernelPackages_2_6_23 is the result of calling this function with
kernel_2_6_23.
This is necessary in NixOS to make it easier to override the kernel:
it's not enough to just specify a different kernel (via the
boot.kernel option), but you also need matching nvidiaDriver, aufs,
iwlwifi, etc. Having a single attribute set that contains all
kernel-related packages makes this much easier.
* The kernel now has a passthru attribute "features" that allows NixOS
expressions to test whether a kernel has certain features. For
instance, the externel "iwlwifi" kernel module package should only
be built on kernels < 2.6.24, as kernels >= 2.6.24 have iwlwifi
support integrated. So the NixOS expressions can do the test
"kernel.features ? iwlwifi" to see if the iwlwifi package should be
built.
Kernel patches can declare additional features. E.g., the fbsplash
patch adds a "fbSplash" feature.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=11881
Unneded args.something replaced with
args: with args;
line. After this line args is the only place where we can recieve variables from.
Also removed several
buildInputs = [];
lines.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=10415
* More compact way to override kernel configuration options, e.g.
extraFlags = ["CONFIG_NO_HZ=y" "# CONFIG_IRQBALANCE is not set"];
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=9562
1. Not to forget all the systemKernel choices.
2. To learn new problems, so that adding actual 2.6.23 will be easily done.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=9381
fetchurl {
url = http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/zapping/zapping-0.9.6.tar.bz2;
md5 = "8306775c6a11de4d72345b5eee970ea6";
};
you can write
fetchurl {
url = mirror://sourceforge/zapping/zapping-0.9.6.tar.bz2;
md5 = "8306775c6a11de4d72345b5eee970ea6";
};
which causes fetchurl to try the SourceForge mirrors listed in the
`sourceforge' attribute in build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix.
(They're currently tried in sequence, and the lists of mirrors are
not configurable yet.)
The syntax for mirror URLs is mirror://site/path/to/file, where
`site' is currently one of `sourceforge', `gnu' (mirrors of
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu) and `kernel' (mirrors of
http://www.all.kernel.org/pub/).
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=9197
* Build the kernel with the new gcc wrapper so that LINUX_COMPILER
gets set properly (and in particular so that the kernel version
string doesn't show "(collect2: ld returned 1 exit status)").
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=8645
* Make sure that every package in all-packages.nix has a unique name.
Not all of them do, but there are now a few helper functions that
modify the name of a package for display purposes in nix-env (e.g.,
you get "zlib-1.2.3" and "zlib-1.2.3-static" in "nix-env -qa").
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=8607
