From 9e56cddf136837d30820783228299b600d98e8b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rodney Lorrimar Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 12:17:15 +0100 Subject: emacsWithPackages: support installing larger packages MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I was getting the following error building tide from Melpa: nix-build -E '(import {}).emacs25WithPackages (p: [p.melpaPackages.tide])' File tide-20170509.1134.tar is large (10.2M), really open? (y or n) Error reading from stdin builder for ‘/nix/store/gs9ik7yf8iilsikkfing74i70m0diax3-emacs-tide-20170509.1134.drv’ failed with exit code 255 cannot build derivation ‘/nix/store/m3p080aani4rw82llp8nqk93cw2nvirk-emacs-with-packages-25.2.drv’: 1 dependencies couldn't be built Solution was to disable the large file warning threshold when installing packages. --- pkgs/build-support/emacs/elpa2nix.el | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'pkgs/build-support') diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/emacs/elpa2nix.el b/pkgs/build-support/emacs/elpa2nix.el index 7eef81b9e7ab..64587c0fad1a 100644 --- a/pkgs/build-support/emacs/elpa2nix.el +++ b/pkgs/build-support/emacs/elpa2nix.el @@ -28,3 +28,6 @@ The file can either be a tar file or an Emacs Lisp file." (insert-file-contents file)) (when is-tar (tar-mode)) (elpa2nix-install-from-buffer)))) + +;; Allow installing package tarfiles larger than 10MB +(setq large-file-warning-threshold nil) -- cgit 1.4.1