These are a collection of packages we need, or packages where we want to control the exact version(s) of.

The packages are imported through the nix-shell automatically. If you run NixOS, read the following section.

$ mkdir -p ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays
$ ln -s $(pwd)/nix/overlay.nix ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays/overlay.nix

Now the package is integrated natively:

$ nix-env -qaP libiscsi
nixos.libiscsi  libiscsi-1.19.0

Like wise for rust nightly:

$ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/nixpkgs-mozilla.git
$ ln -s $(pwd)/nixpkgs-mozilla/rust-overlay.nix ~/.config/nixpkgs/overlays/rust-overlay.nix

With the overlay in place you can start nix-shell a within the project root.

Build environment for mayastor extensions including all test and debug dependencies. It can be run with the arguments:

• --arg norust true: to use your own rust toolchain.