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Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/stdenv')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix index c06f17b6fc19..b93ea558eac2 100644 --- a/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix +++ b/pkgs/stdenv/generic/check-meta.nix @@ -88,13 +88,28 @@ let broken-outputs = remediateOutputsToInstall; unknown-meta = x: ""; }; + remediation_env_var = allow_attr: { + Unfree = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE"; + Broken = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN"; + UnsupportedSystem = "NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_SYSTEM"; + }.${allow_attr}; + remediation_phrase = allow_attr: { + Unfree = "unfree packages"; + Broken = "broken packages"; + UnsupportedSystem = "packages that are unsupported for this system"; + }.${allow_attr}; remediate_whitelist = allow_attr: attrs: '' - a) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set + a) To temporarily allow ${remediation_phrase allow_attr}, you can use an environment variable + for a single invocation of the nix tools. + + $ export ${remediation_env_var allow_attr}=1 + + b) For `nixos-rebuild` you can set { nixpkgs.config.allow${allow_attr} = true; } in configuration.nix to override this. - b) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add + c) For `nix-env`, `nix-build`, `nix-shell` or any other Nix command you can add { allow${allow_attr} = true; } to ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix. ''; |