Yet another approach is to go to
https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/trunk-combined/latest-eval and search
for the package you want. There are the two installation methods listed:
https://hydra.nixos.org/build/37049862


On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 at 17:38 Daniel Hlynskyi <[email protected]> wrote:

> All approaches listed here share common pitfall - you have to download not
> only latest Nixpkgs tarball, but whole new stdenv and co to use that 1
> package.
>
> But often cherry-picking that new package and deps to local Nixpkgs is the
> only thing required, without all of that updated stdenv.
>
> I see replaceRuntimeDependencies and nbp's approache for quickfix packages
> as a step toward nice solution to this problem. But haven't used them yet.
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