bug#41056: closed ([PATCH] gnu: nix: Update to 2.3.4.)

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> Hi everybody,
> I'm sending a couple of patches upgrading Nix to 2.3.4 and adding 
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> Hi Marius,
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> On 2020-05-05 17:48, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> Giacomo Leidi <address@hidden> writes:
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>>> * gnu/packages/package-management.scm (nix): Update to 2.3.4,
>>> [native-inputs]: Add autoconf, autoconf-archive, automake, bison and 
>>> flex,
>>> [inputs]: Add boost, brotli, editline.
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>> The new native-inputs are weird.  Do you know why they are needed?
>> Typically those are only necessary when building from a git checkout,
>> not for release tarballs.
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> Of course they are strange, I was trying to use the Git checkout 
> initially because of the wonderful support offered by SWH in storing Git 
> repositories but eventually I changed my mind and forgot to remove them 
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Easy mistake to make :-) good thing we have patch review processes to
catch such issues!

> I fixed this and the problems in the other patch and I'm going to send 
> an updated version.

Applied both patches, thank you!

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