How do I upgrade netbeans with packageOverride in configruation.nix?

Question

I'm trying to change the version of netbeans using this guide. I'm using the config.nix expression inside my /etc/configuration.nix This is what it looks like:

 nixpkgs.config = {
    packageOverrides = pkgs: rec {
      myNetbeans = pkgs.stdenv.lib.overrideDerivation pkgs.netbeans ( oldAttrs: {
        name = "netbeans-8.1";
        src = fetchurl {
          url = ttp://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/8.1/final/zip/netbeans-8.1-201510222201.zip;
          md5 = "361ce18421761a057bad5cb6cf7b58f4";
        };
      });
    };
  };

I believe I have everything right but it is unable to find fetchurl and I get these errors.

error: undefined variable ‘fetchurl’ at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:83:15 (use ‘--show-trace’ to show detailed location information) error: undefined variable ‘fetchurl’ at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:83:15 (use ‘--show-trace’ to show detailed location information) building the system configuration... error: undefined variable ‘fetchurl’ at /etc/nixos/configuration.nix:83:15 (use ‘--show-trace’ to show detailed location information)

How can I fix this error and get netbeans upgraded?

Answer 1

You're nearly there. The fetchurl variable is only present/defined in the scope of the pkgs set. That's the cause of the error message saying the fetchurl variable is undefined. So simply access the fetchurl attribute from the scope of the pkgs set, i.e. pkgs.fetchurl, the same as you have for pkgs.netbeans.

If you need to access lots of attributes from a set then make use of the with nix language construct (ref).

PS you'll need to correct the typo in url = http://.