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Author SHA1 Message Date
Hamish Mackenzie
a443611ecf
Add evalSystem and evalPackages project args (#1546)
This adds a way to specify the `evalSystem` or `evalPackages` explicitly when calling the `project` functions.

Currently if we want to make a `flake` that supports multiple systems we have few options:

* Require builders for all the supported systems (even just for `nix flake show`).

* Pass `--impure` so that haskell.nix can see `builtins.currentSystem` to set up `pkgs.evalPackages` to use that.  Unfortunately this prevents nix from caching some of the work it does and often results in it recalculating for each supported system when it would otherwise be cached and take no time at all.

* Add an overlay to replace `evalPackages`.  This works, but it is not straight forward.

* Materialize the nix files for the project.

This change allows `evalSystem = "x86_64-linux";` to be passed telling `haskell.nix` to run `cabal` and `nix-tools` on that system.  The user will have to have a builder for that system, but does not need to have builders for the others (unless building outputs for them).
2022-07-28 20:03:05 +12:00
Hamish Mackenzie
2576a948b5
Improve support for external Hackage repositories (#1370)
* Improve support for external Hackage repositories

This change builds #535. `repository` blocks in `cabal.project` parsed and `cabal` is used to automatically downloaded them.  Then `hackage-to-nix` is used to produce the nix required.

To make it work with restricted eval (on hydra for instance) we need to include a sha256 like this:

```
repository ghcjs-overlay
  url: https://input-output-hk.github.io/hackage-overlay-ghcjs
  secure: True
  root-keys:
  key-threshold: 0
  --sha256: sha256-EPlLYPmIGtxeahlOspRzwJv+60N5mqrNC2BY4jZKceE=
```

To find the correct `sha256` put in an invalid one and attempt a build.
2022-02-18 00:42:11 +13:00