I have recently came back to nixos and I am currently trying to configure a server with jupyterhub. But it has been marked as broken due to incompatibility with sqlalchemy in this commit.
Hence, there is are few problems to tackle. As the supported version of sqlalchemy is no longer available in nixpkgs (<2.0) and then we have to force this older version to the jupyterhub package.
I have found this article and found this hash of older version of the jupyterhub package (link). But unfortunately I couldn’t make it work.
I am still very new to the nix and its concepts. How should I tackle this problem? Did some of you had some similar problem? How did you solve it?
Unfortunately I don’t have the code snippets of my experimentations but the last one. I have copied the contents of the last appliable sqlalchemy derivation. and tried to apply it as follows:
{ pkgs, builtins, ... }: {
services.jupyterhub = let
alteredJupyterhub = pkgs.python310Packages.jupyterhub.override {
sqlalchemy = import ../derivations/sqlalchemy.nix; # the last appliable version
};
in {
enable = true;
stateDirectory = "/data/jupyter";
jupyterlabEnv = pkgs.python3.withPackages [
alteredJupyterhub
];
};
}