nix-community/nixGL

problem with install trough flakes

brothermechanic opened this issue · 7 comments

brothermechanic commented

Hello.
Thank you for repository!
Help me to install it trough flakes
This is an error

$ nix profile install github:guibou/nixGL#nixGLNvidia
error: attribute 'currentTime' missing

       at /nix/store/vadnrinka7qsa6qn69g98hgvybgh6g2v-source/nixGL.nix:216:18:

          215|           # Add an impure parameter to force the rebuild on each access.
          216|           time = builtins.currentTime;
             |                  ^
          217|           preferLocalBuild = true;
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guibou commented

could you try with nix build --impure github:guibou/nixGL#nixGLNvidia ?

ryanswrt commented

Here's the line I use NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix profile install github:guibou/nixGL --impure ; for some reason nix profile doesn't read my local nix conf to allow unfree flakes to be installed

brothermechanic commented

could you try with nix build --impure github:guibou/nixGL#nixGLNvidia ?

that's builds fine

$ nix build --impure github:guibou/nixGL#nixGLNvidia
$ ls result/bin/nixGLNvidia-515.65.01
brothermechanic commented

Here's the line I use NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix profile install github:guibou/nixGL --impure ; for some reason nix profile doesn't read my local nix conf to allow unfree flakes to be installed

Works!

$ nix profile install github:guibou/nixGL#nixGLNvidia --impure

Thank you!

brothermechanic commented

For final understanding...

--impure
Allow access to mutable paths and repositories.

https://github.com/guibou/nixGL - is mutable repo?

guibou commented

@brothermechanic yes, the nixGLNvidia package does some impure stuffs in order to auto detect nvidia version.

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guibou commented

I'm closing.

However, we should keep in mind that defining a solution to fix all theses impurity could be awesome.