use normal nixpkgs and custom geth

Author: MrChico

default.nix

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { system ? builtins.currentSystem , ... }:
 
 let
-  rev = "3d64b6067f1c457f889e91c59ced273be1d1e4f1";
+  rev = "aa576357673d609e618d87db43210e49d4bb1789";
   nixpkgs = builtins.fetchTarball {
     name = "nixpkgs-release-21.05";
     url = "https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/tarball/${rev}";
-    sha256 = "0wgmzq2h82wxqh6zkxxxw77rdk75m48rshmjfl3w35pv498wfcwz";
+    sha256 = "1868s3mp0lwg1jpxsgmgijzddr90bjkncf6k6zhdjqihf0i1n2np";
   };
 in
   # Now return the Nixpkgs configured to use our overlay.

nix/geth.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, buildGoModule, fetchFromGitHub, libobjc ? null, IOKit ? null }:
+
+let
+  # A list of binaries to put into separate outputs
+  bins = [
+    "geth"
+    "clef"
+  ];
+
+in buildGoModule rec {
+  pname = "go-ethereum";
+  version = "1.10.6";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "ethereum";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "sha256-4lapkoxSKdXlD6rmUxnlSKrfH+DeV6/wV05CqJjuzjA=";
+  };
+
+  runVend = true;
+  vendorSha256 = "sha256-5qi01y0SIEI0WRYu2I2RN94QFS8rrlioFvnRqqp6wtk=";
+
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  outputs = [ "out" ] ++ bins;
+
+  # Move binaries to separate outputs and symlink them back to $out
+  postInstall = lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (
+    builtins.map (bin: "mkdir -p \$${bin}/bin && mv $out/bin/${bin} \$${bin}/bin/ && ln -s \$${bin}/bin/${bin} $out/bin/") bins
+  );
+
+  subPackages = [
+    "cmd/abidump"
+    "cmd/abigen"
+    "cmd/bootnode"
+    "cmd/checkpoint-admin"
+    "cmd/clef"
+    "cmd/devp2p"
+    "cmd/ethkey"
+    "cmd/evm"
+    "cmd/faucet"
+    "cmd/geth"
+    "cmd/p2psim"
+    "cmd/puppeth"
+    "cmd/rlpdump"
+    "cmd/utils"
+  ];
+
+  # Fix for usb-related segmentation faults on darwin
+  propagatedBuildInputs =
+    lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [ libobjc IOKit ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://geth.ethereum.org/";
+    description = "Official golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol";
+    license = with licenses; [ lgpl3Plus gpl3Plus ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ adisbladis lionello xrelkd RaghavSood ];
+  };
+}

overlay.nix

@@ -118,8 +118,17 @@ in rec {
 
   # We use this to run private testnets without
   # the pesky transaction size limit.
-  go-ethereum-unlimited = super.go-ethereum.overrideAttrs (geth: rec {
-    name = "${geth.pname}-unlimited-${geth.version}";
+  go-ethereum-unlimited = (self.callPackage (import ./nix/geth.nix) {}).overrideAttrs (geth: rec {
+    version = "1.10.7";
+
+    src = super.fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "ethereum";
+      repo = "go-ethereum";
+      rev = "v${version}";
+      sha256 = "0a4l3xisw7d80l1plqk1rwzxiffwvwsvcm1345hzz2xpmxpkd6y4";
+    };
+
+    name = "${geth.pname}-unlimited-${version}";
     preConfigure = ''
       # Huge transaction calldata
       substituteInPlace core/tx_pool.go --replace 'return ErrOversizedData' ""