virtualbox: force xorg-server-1.18 for now

This is getting a little hacky, but hopefully it won't break anything.
2017-02-12 21:07:49 +01:00
parent 2dba30af72
commit 31eba21d1d
2 changed files with 10 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -4,7 +4,14 @@
 let
  version = virtualbox.version;
  xserverVListFunc = builtins.elemAt (stdenv.lib.splitString "." xorg.xorgserver.version);
-  xserverABI = xserverVListFunc 0 + xserverVListFunc 1;
+
+  # Forced to 1.18 in <nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/x11/xserver.nix>
+  # as it even fails to build otherwise.  Still, override this even here,
+  # in case someone does just a standalone build
+  # (not via videoDrivers = ["vboxvideo"]).
+  # It's likely to work again in some future update.
+  xserverABI = let abi = xserverVListFunc 0 + xserverVListFunc 1;
+    in if abi == "119" then "118" else abi;
 in

 stdenv.mkDerivation {