esy-opam-override

Esy allows to use any opam package published in opam repository by automatically converting from opam format to package.json format.

Unfortunately this automatic conversion doesn't work in 100% of cases. This is why we maintain a collection of "fixups" for opam packages.

Repository structure

packages
├── ...
└── PACKAGE_NAME.PACKAGE_VERSION_PATTERN
    ├── ...
    └── ocaml_VERSION_CONSTRAINT
        ├── files (optional)
        └── package.json

Esy override specification

Each package.json should contain a single JSON object which conforms to the type OpamOverride described below:

type OpamOverride = {
  exportedEnv?: {[name: string]: EnvExport},
  dependencies?: {[name: string]: string},
  build?: string[],
  install?: string[],
  opam?: {
    url: string,
    checksum: md5checksum
  }
}

type md5checksum = string

type EnvExport = {
  val: string,
  scope?: 'global' | 'local'
}

All items within the files directory will be copied over to the package installation root.