Nixpkgs: Package rustup or update rustc-nightly more often
Issue description
I have to use rustc nightly for one project, but the nightly version of nixpkgs is too old. And we do not ship rustup either, so it is not possible for me to work right now...
Can someone please provide some documentation how to update rustc unstable? That'd be the simplest solution I guess... because right now I do not understand how to update the package...
matthiasbeyer
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I was working on a script to do this automatically: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/21922 ... it's not finished yet.
Mic92
on 28 Feb 2017
rustup should also work without a nix package in your home.
Mic92
on 28 Feb 2017
rustup doesn't work as the downloaded binaries need to be patched. I started adding this functionality to rustup some time ago but never got around finishing it. Can't be done with a simple wrapper as rustup calls into the downloaded binaries to check their versions etc. before exiting.
the-kenny
on 1 Mar 2017
I don't care anymore because there is the nixpkgs overlay by mozilla now.
matthiasbeyer
on 8 Apr 2017
For people finding this issue on Google: The overlay @matthiasbeyer mentioned is available at https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla
the-kenny
on 8 Apr 2017
Yes. If you find that rustc does not find src or core, have a look here. I don't know how common this is, but I'll leave this here just in case.
matthiasbeyer
on 8 Apr 2017
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For people finding this issue on Google: The overlay @matthiasbeyer mentioned is available at https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla