Thanks @Samae that’s gotten me closer.
I’ve tried to use something similar to what @codygman posted as a workaround Overriding a transitive emacs dependency - #4 as @TLATER suggested.
But what I’ve got isn’t quite working… yet…
# ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix
...
myEmacsConfig = ./overlays/pkgs/emacs;
myBaseDir = "${toString ./..}";
emacsOverrides = self: super: rec {
spinner = super.spinner.override {
elpaBuild = args: super.elpaBuild (args // {
src = (builtins.fetchurl {
url = "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/spinner-1.7.3.el.lz";
sha256 = "188i2r7ixva78qd99ksyh3jagnijpvzzjvvx37n57x8nkp8jc4i4";
});
});
};
};
myEmacs = (((pkgs.emacsPackagesGen pkgs.emacs).overrideScope' emacsOverrides).emacsWithPackages (epkgs: with epkgs;
# CONFIG setup
[
(runCommand "default.el" {} ''
mkdir -p $out/share/emacs/site-lisp
cp ${myEmacsConfig}/*.el $out/share/emacs/site-lisp/
if [ -d ${myBaseDir}/custom/emacs ]; then
mkdir -p $out/share/emacs/site-lisp/custom
cp ${myBaseDir}/custom/emacs/*.el $out/share/emacs/site-lisp/custom/
fi
'')
] ++
[
# elpa
spinner
...
]
));
...
``
Error log...
% nix-env -iA nixpkgs.myEmacs
installing ‘emacs-with-packages-27.2’
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/nix/store/2jl6cym0ij1z7bj54cq0b33sdi7837qp-emacs-zoom-window-20201205.1038.drv
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/nix/store/9vxxbm25zv1yyn47cbfp37zl1z3hcqz0-yaml-mode-recipe.drv
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/nix/store/df55dxj5qbq6jcssbgnkl0yfy0a1r9kf-emacs-gitlab-ci-mode-20191022.2017.drv
/nix/store/7c34ng8f4861mn9lkq4cj8zgsz24xlw8-emacs-gitlab-ci-mode-flycheck-20190323.1829.drv
/nix/store/8bs7djam419llrqh7bbqdch18w54zd7w-emacs-docker-compose-mode-20200830.1336.drv
/nix/store/8nk25cmjdnfx634y4x8xkm088g3x6aab-emacs-git-timemachine-20210528.908.drv
/nix/store/8nkmqizqbp044rnsr2a0ypqm9llv4x3i-undo-tree-0.7.5.el.drv
/nix/store/9fx7c786jmhh3s29ri7x9k25m9849kas-yasnippet-recipe.drv
/nix/store/nzq9k2rhvlg862vjmxxzq0w4i1inpdhz-treemacs-recipe.drv
/nix/store/fb5zg7hg4fh1ghg93llxpdz78sph0zdl-emacs-treemacs-20210606.1918.drv
/nix/store/y9id333ns73qdd38bx9rgnxa06fi47nw-emacs-spinner-1.7.3.drv
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/nix/store/xvkwpih20zw92k17dmlgn8q2jlsc0bww-use-package-recipe.drv
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/nix/store/i1wwg19267x40z70i79izcfvhp9h634g-emacs-helm-lsp-20210419.2014.drv
/nix/store/l31qirm9d3azhaq7grcmk4d8lgggwf2c-emacs-docker-20210624.1359.drv
/nix/store/l8yqkzmamg56wbw1daiwzpy6w9cazlin-treepy-recipe.drv
/nix/store/ns4fbiacfc3k9y6d0x8r0k5q33nk5sw3-emacs-treepy-20191108.2217.drv
/nix/store/cxk2fbkzlhqfp7j1fwmfzq5b08yy52yv-emacs-ghub-20210619.1405.drv
/nix/store/j12p1al0dqgcgx7cj5ff8y0d0d55f01c-yaml-recipe.drv
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/nix/store/yr1nlzdxws7b0j0kzjj5fb3i1bhiyljp-emacs-magit-20210701.1554.drv
/nix/store/mxzx5ijv58bmisvmp8v31gvs62vhka5y-emacs-forge-20210628.736.drv
/nix/store/nrf9df26ms0qkcb76ps2c9qach4zfq4j-emacs-undo-tree-0.7.5.drv
/nix/store/q5m44r5iwmvkbs5rxwgvapsy0yww1s3w-emacs-yasnippet-20200604.246.drv
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/nix/store/mjrl96v0l5fcpcn525ww83s6l50bf69q-which-key-recipe.drv
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building ‘/nix/store/8nk25cmjdnfx634y4x8xkm088g3x6aab-emacs-git-timemachine-20210528.908.drv’…
unpacking sources
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source root is source
patching sources
configuring
no configure script, doing nothing
building
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INFO Scraping files for git-timemachine-autoloads.el…
INFO Scraping files for git-timemachine-autoloads.el…done
Checking /nix/store/jylgivgdjyq5jw8q68wgzpdb4kf3wyrs-emacs-git-timemachine-20210528.908/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/git-timemachine-20210528.908…
Compiling /nix/store/jylgivgdjyq5jw8q68wgzpdb4kf3wyrs-emacs-git-timemachine-20210528.908/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/git-timemachine-20210528.908/git-timemachine-autoloads.el…
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define-transient-command' is an obsolete alias (as of Transient 0.3.0); use transient-define-prefix’ instead.
Done (Total of 1 file compiled, 2 skipped)
post-installation fixup
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patching script interpreter paths in /nix/store/jylgivgdjyq5jw8q68wgzpdb4kf3wyrs-emacs-git-timemachine-20210528.908
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from /private/tmp/nix-build-emacs-magit-20210701.1554.drv-0/working/magit/
to /private/tmp/nix-build-emacs-magit-20210701.1554.drv-0/magitwh3qBY/magit-20210701.1554
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! lisp/magit-blame.el → magit-blame.el
! lisp/magit-bookmark.el → magit-bookmark.el
! lisp/magit-branch.el → magit-branch.el
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! lisp/magit-diff.el → magit-diff.el
! lisp/magit-ediff.el → magit-ediff.el
! lisp/magit-extras.el → magit-extras.el
! lisp/magit-fetch.el → magit-fetch.el
! lisp/magit-files.el → magit-files.el
! lisp/magit-git.el → magit-git.el
! lisp/magit-gitignore.el → magit-gitignore.el
! lisp/magit-imenu.el → magit-imenu.el
! lisp/magit-log.el → magit-log.el
! lisp/magit-margin.el → magit-margin.el
! lisp/magit-merge.el → magit-merge.el
! lisp/magit-mode.el → magit-mode.el
! lisp/magit-notes.el → magit-notes.el
! lisp/magit-obsolete.el → magit-obsolete.el
! lisp/magit-patch.el → magit-patch.el
! lisp/magit-pkg.el → magit-pkg.el
! lisp/magit-process.el → magit-process.el
! lisp/magit-pull.el → magit-pull.el
! lisp/magit-push.el → magit-push.el
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! lisp/magit-refs.el → magit-refs.el
! lisp/magit-remote.el → magit-remote.el
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! lisp/magit-sequence.el → magit-sequence.el
! lisp/magit-stash.el → magit-stash.el
! lisp/magit-status.el → magit-status.el
! lisp/magit-submodule.el → magit-submodule.el
! lisp/magit-subtree.el → magit-subtree.el
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! lisp/magit-wip.el → magit-wip.el
! lisp/magit-worktree.el → magit-worktree.el
! lisp/magit.el → magit.el
! lisp/git-rebase.el → git-rebase.el
! Documentation/magit.texi → magit.texi
! Documentation/AUTHORS.md → AUTHORS.md
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