dosbox: 0.74 -> svn #26763
dosbox: 0.74 -> svn #26763
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Version 0.74 (released in 2012) of dosbox segfauls, as described at: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/4dxfei/dosbox_segmentation_fault_core_dumped/ dosbox versioning scheme uses only 2 components, so I assume that using "0.74-4024" is a future-proof method (see the list of existing https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/files/dosbox/). Missing dependencies were added: - SDL_sound - for mounting .cue files with compressed sound - SDL_net - for IPX support - libpng - for making screenshots
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I agree that the situation with dosbox is unfortunate. The latest release is quite old, but according to #dosbox on freenode should be stable.
So I think we should do the same as for wine: keep the old version, but add the svn version as dosbox-unstable until a new dosbox version is released. To do that, copy default.nix to a new unstable.nix file, restore the original default.nix and include the new package as dosbox-unstable in all-packages.nix.
Additionally, it would be nice if you could list yourself as a maintainer of the new package. For this, you first need to add yourself to lib/maintainers.nix if you haven't done so already and then set meta.maintainers (look at other packages to see how this is done).
| name = "dosbox-0.74"; | ||
| let revision = "4024"; | ||
| in stdenv.mkDerivation rec { | ||
| name = "dosbox-0.74-${revision}"; |
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As per the Nixpkgs manual's Naming Conventions, the name should be dosbox-unstable-2017-06-19.
Version 0.74 (released in 2012) of dosbox segfaults, as described at:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/4dxfei/dosbox_segmentation_fault_core_dumped/
dosbox versioning scheme uses only 2 components, so I assume that
using "0.74-4024" is a future-proof method (see the list of existing
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/files/dosbox/).
Missing dependencies were added:
Motivation for this change
Things done
(nix.useSandbox on NixOS,
or option
build-use-sandboxinnix.confon non-NixOS)
nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"./result/bin/)