Old/unusable apps in nixpkgs

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If I’m not wrong,

“drive” is in nixpkgs with a version from 2016 Release Release v0.3.8(HiatusReturnIsAComingOfAge) · odeke-em/drive · GitHub

  • surprisingly not usable anymore ?

Who has in interest to keep those unusable packages

I would find it useful to have a year attribute in the packages so that I could filter out all the old rubbish …

looks like gdrive needs an API key before the build process (else it wouldn’t be usable) ?

btw
What is the currently best Google drive integration into nixos/KDE?

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Feel free to make a PR to update it to 0.4.0 which is from 2020.

Not sure what is the “best”, though I use Insync which is not free though.

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Sure I could try to make it up to date (but not “so many” packages → that why the filter attribute “year” would really be helpful) … but time is limited

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I can’t help with Insync 3.x. I use it only on Mac and Windows, as alternatives are missing.

I use Insync 1.5.7.37371 and wrapped it in a systemd service via HM.

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there is no Download link anymore available

nix-shell -p insync

these 2 derivations will be built:
  /nix/store/n5421kzr58kg9yvm8jnfvw6fh67hwj51-insync-portable_1.5.7.37371_amd64.tar.bz2.drv
  /nix/store/j3hczdxbkd0p34ah04vpx6nnz2wxq89w-insync-1.5.7.37371.drv
building '/nix/store/n5421kzr58kg9yvm8jnfvw6fh67hwj51-insync-portable_1.5.7.37371_amd64.tar.bz2.drv'...

trying http://s.insynchq.com/builds/insync-portable_1.5.7.37371_amd64.tar.bz2
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 403
error: cannot download insync-portable_1.5.7.37371_amd64.tar.bz2 from any mirror
error: builder for '/nix/store/n5421kzr58kg9yvm8jnfvw6fh67hwj51-insync-portable_1.5.7.37371_amd64.tar.bz2.drv' failed with exit code 1;
       last 7 log lines:
       >
       > trying http://s.insynchq.com/builds/insync-portable_1.5.7.37371_amd64.tar.bz2
       >   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
       >                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
       >   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
       > curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 403
       > error: cannot download insync-portable_1.5.7.37371_amd64.tar.bz2 from any mirror
       For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/n5421kzr58kg9yvm8jnfvw6fh67hwj51-insync-portable_1.5.7.37371_amd64.tar.bz2.drv'.
error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/j3hczdxbkd0p34ah04vpx6nnz2wxq89w-insync-1.5.7.37371.drv' failed to build

insync change the provision …

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The built-in thing in Gnome works fine for general file access, but it’s not offline sync.

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thanks for the hint. I would like to stay with KDE plasma … and using a google Drive integration

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Thats unfortunate. Seems as if I then just life from some artifact in my build cache, waiting for it to fail eventually :sob: