Hello, me again! Can you believe its only been a few hours since I asked my last embarrassing amatureish question regarding buildPythonPackage-related activities?
I’m continuing on my quest to successfully package Copier (GitHub - copier-org/copier: Library and command-line utility for rendering projects templates.). As I’ve been working my way through its dependencies, I’ve run into two variations of the same issue that’s a bit confusing for me, I’ll try to describe both:
(All dependencies are being provided through propagatedBuildInputs)
ERROR 1 – PYYAML-INCLUDE
There is one dependency called pyyaml-include, which is not available in nixpkgs, so I’m building it myself (also via buildPythonPackage). Copier requires the version to be >=1.2, and the latest version provided is 1.2.post2. I am building the package from master (GitHub - tanbro/pyyaml-include: yaml include other yaml) because the build fails for reasons I don’t understand when i try to use specific tags (like v1.2.post2 or even 1.2).
Copier’s build throws errors saying Could not find version...pyyaml-include<2.0;>=1.2 (from copier) (from versions: none), even though I can see python3.9-pyyaml-include-1.2.post2.drv is successfully built above. I suspect the less-than-standard version-naming scheme is responsible for this particular issue? When I change Copier’s requirement listed in pyproject.toml from "^1.2" to "=1.2.post2", I do not encounter this error. However, of course, I ideally shouldn’t need to edit the actual dependency requirements to get things to build on nix 
ERROR 2 – PLUMBUM
The next dependency is called plumbum, which is actually provided by nixpkgs as python39Packages.plumbum, and is version 1.7.0 in the nixpkgs used (I made sure, in 20.09 its at version 1.6.9). Copier’s version requirement for plumbum is >=1.6.9. As far as I understand, 1.7.0 is semantically greater than 1.6.9. Lo, I am met with the same error: Could not find version...plumbum<2.0.0;>=1.6.9 (from copier) (from versions: none). I was paranoid enough that I tried packaging this one as well like I had ones before, but to no avail. On this time around, my previous shenanigan of setting the requirement in pyproject to "1.7.0" did not work.
I am approximately 75% sure I didn’t misspell anything (that may not seem high, but I’m rarely confident about anything) as I copy-pasted the names of packages from pyproject.toml to flake.nix. I’m hardstuck on this last error, but I’d also very much like to understand the first one as well.
My flake is as follows:
{
description = "A library for rendering project templates";
inputs = {
flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs";
#
# Non-nix-provided dependencies
#
poetry-dynamic-versioning = {
url = "github:mtkennerly/poetry-dynamic-versioning";
flake = false;
};
iteration-utilities = {
url = "github:MSeifert04/iteration_utilities";
flake = false;
};
jinja2-ansible-filters = {
# Can't use typical gitlab access method 'cause subgroup :/
url =
"git+https://gitlab.com/dreamer-labs/libraries/jinja2-ansible-filters";
flake = false;
};
# python39Packages.jinja2 is at version 3.0.1, we need 3.0.2
jinja2 = {
url = "github:pallets/jinja2";
flake = false;
};
dunamai = {
url = "github:mtkennerly/dunamai";
flake = false;
};
pyyaml-include = {
url = "github:tanbro/pyyaml-include";
flake = false;
};
plumbum = {
url = "github:tomerfiliba/plumbum/v1.7.0";
flake = false;
};
};
outputs = { self, nixpkgs, flake-utils, ... }@inputs:
let
pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages."x86_64-linux";
pyPackages = pkgs.python39Packages;
pyBuild = pyPackages.buildPythonPackage;
poetry-dynamic-versioning = pyBuild {
pname = "poetry-dynamic-versioning";
version = "0.13.1";
src = inputs.poetry-dynamic-versioning;
format = "pyproject";
propagatedBuildInputs = with pkgs // pyPackages; [ poetry python updatedJinja2 dunamai ];
};
iteration-utilities = pyBuild {
pname = "iteration_utilities";
version = "0.11.0";
src = inputs.iteration-utilities;
doCheck = false; # Dies on setuptoolsCheckPhase, idk why sooo... /shrug
};
updatedJinja2 = pyBuild {
pname = "Jinja2";
version = "3.0.2";
src = inputs.jinja2;
propagatedBuildInputs = with pyPackages; [ pyyaml markupsafe ];
};
jinja2-ansible-filters = pyBuild {
pname = "jinja2-ansible-filters";
version = "1.3.0";
src = inputs.jinja2-ansible-filters;
propagatedBuildInputs = with pyPackages; [ pyyaml updatedJinja2 ];
};
dunamai = pyBuild {
pname = "dunamai";
version = "1.7.0";
src = inputs.dunamai;
format = "pyproject";
propagatedBuildInputs = with pyPackages; [ poetry ];
};
pyyaml-include = pyBuild {
pname = "pyyaml-include";
version = "1.2.post2";
src = inputs.pyyaml-include;
doCheck = false;
format = "pyproject";
propagatedBuildInputs = with pyPackages; [ poetry pyyaml ];
};
plumbum170 = pyBuild {
pname = "plumbum";
version = "1.7.0";
src = inputs.plumbum;
doCheck = false;
propagatedBuildInputs = with pyPackages; [ poetry ];
};
copier = pyBuild rec {
pname = "copier";
version = "5.1.0";
src = ./.;
format = "pyproject";
propagatedBuildInputs = with pyPackages; [
pyyaml-include
poetry-core
poetry-dynamic-versioning
cached-property
colorama
importlib-metadata
iteration-utilities
pathspec
updatedJinja2
jinja2-ansible-filters
plumbum170
pytest
pygments
questionary
poetry
pydantic
markupsafe
];
meta = with nixpkgs.lib; {
description = ''
A library for rendering project templates.
'';
homepage = "https://github.com/copier-org/copier";
license = licenses.mit;
};
};
in {
# Nixpkgs overlay providing the application
overlay = (final: prev: { inherit copier; });
} // (flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
let
pkgs = import nixpkgs {
inherit system;
overlays = [ self.overlay ];
};
in rec {
apps = { copier = pkgs.copier; };
defaultApp = apps.copier;
}));
}