[Nix-dev] distributed version control system

2010-04-23 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Hi! I propose to move nix development to some dvcs. I hope that the advantages of such move are rather obvious. For example, it does not require contributor to have svn account. 1. Are there any objections? 2. Which dvcs system will we use? I use git but I have no strong preferences. I know

Re: [Nix-dev] distributed version control system

2010-04-23 Thread Michael Raskin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/23/2010 10:27 AM, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: 1. Are there any objections? Well, there are some features that SVN has and many DVCS lack. a) checking out only a subdirectory. Most VCSes have branch granularity for checkouts. b) checking out

[Nix-dev] Re: distributed version control system

2010-04-23 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Michael Raskin wrote: On 04/23/2010 10:27 AM, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: 1. Are there any objections? Well, there are some features that SVN has and many DVCS lack. a) checking out only a subdirectory. Most VCSes have branch granularity for checkouts. If someone wants to commit to, say,

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: distributed version control system

2010-04-23 Thread Michael Raskin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/23/2010 12:07 PM, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: Well, there are some features that SVN has and many DVCS lack. a) checking out only a subdirectory. Most VCSes have branch granularity for checkouts. If someone wants to commit to, say, nixpgs, he

Re: [Nix-dev] udev-153

2010-04-23 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: Udev 153 released. New release does not allow us to rewrite firmware search path at runtime, but it allows us to specify --with-firmware- path=path1:path2:... configure option. I propose to use /var/run/firmware:/root/test-firmware path, and symlink

[Nix-dev] Re: udev-153

2010-04-23 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Eelco Dolstra wrote: Hi, I propose to use /var/run/firmware:/root/test-firmware path, and symlink /var/run/firmware to /nix/store/hash-firmware. /nix/store/hash-firmware will contain symlinks to all files in hardware.firmware directory. This will not allow us to modify the set of firmware

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: udev-153

2010-04-23 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: Hi, I propose to use /var/run/firmware:/root/test-firmware path, and symlink /var/run/firmware to /nix/store/hash-firmware. /nix/store/hash-firmware will contain symlinks to all files in hardware.firmware directory. This will not allow us to modify the set of

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: udev-153

2010-04-23 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:04:02PM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: Eelco Dolstra wrote: Hi, I propose to use /var/run/firmware:/root/test-firmware path, and symlink /var/run/firmware to /nix/store/hash-firmware. /nix/store/hash-firmware will contain symlinks to all files in

Re: [Nix-dev] Why is the /nix/store location hardcoded?

2010-04-23 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from David Soergel's message of Thu Apr 22 00:51:15 +0200 2010: Is there some compelling reason why the location of the nix store is fixed at compile time, and why nix-push/nix-pull can only work among machines that agree on the location of the store? hardcoding /nix/store (or a

[Nix-dev] man and texlive

2010-04-23 Thread maggesi
Hi, there is a problem with man when texlive-core is installed: $ man man /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin/man: line 2: /nix/store/502jps3pnr73bg9fqlycr0h9n666ys3m-texlive-core-2009/libexec/i686-pc-linux-gnu/man: is a directory At the moment I don't understand why texlive replaces

[Nix-dev] patch to add glpk

2010-04-23 Thread Brian Gough
Hello! Here is a patch to add GLPK (the GNU linear programming library) to Nixpkgs. If the format of the patch is ok I can do one for other missing gnu packages, either individually or as a combined patch. -- Brian Gough Index: pkgs/development/libraries/glpk/default.nix

Re: [Nix-dev] Re: Python packages in peril

2010-04-23 Thread Marc Weber
What do you think? I don't know what happened to me. I took a break for two days. facts: I broke trunk. I broke it for too long. I didn't see why that happened. I also broke HaXe without wanting to brake it. I also updated Eclipse which was a bad idea because most plugins don't work with 3.5.2

[Nix-dev] Should I revert my last Eclipse patch or shall I extend the expression?

2010-04-23 Thread Marc Weber
Which is the best way to revert my Eclipse change? I'd like to introduce this: { [...], version ? 3.5.0 }: # adding vesrion defaulting to 3.5.0 let sources = { 3.5.0-i686-linux = fetchurl ..; 3.5.0-i686-linux = fetchurl ..; # note: not all plugins can be used with this version

[Nix-dev] pkgs.synaptics

2010-04-23 Thread Marc Weber
What is it used for ? It does no longer build. Lluís Batlle told me on irc today that I may forget about it and that I should use the xorg drivers. So can we at least add a comment then? What do you think? Marc Weber ___ nix-dev mailing list

[Nix-dev] Re: pkgs.synaptics

2010-04-23 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Marc Weber wrote: What is it used for ? It does no longer build. I've already written about pkgs.synaptics a week ago. Sorry, forgotten to actually remove it. Will do in a few minutes. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@cs.uu.nl

[Nix-dev] Re: patch to add glpk

2010-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Brian! Brian Gough b...@gnu.org writes: Hello! Here is a patch to add GLPK (the GNU linear programming library) to Nixpkgs. If the format of the patch is ok I can do one for other missing gnu packages, either individually or as a combined patch. Nice! I’ve committed your patch (see

Re: [Nix-dev] Should I revert my last Eclipse patch or shall I extend the expression?

2010-04-23 Thread Tony White
On 23 April 2010 17:30, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote: Which is the best way to revert my Eclipse change? I'd like to introduce this: { [...], version ? 3.5.0 }: # adding vesrion defaulting to  3.5.0 let  sources = {    3.5.0-i686-linux = fetchurl ..;    3.5.0-i686-linux =

[Nix-dev] Re: Python packages in peril

2010-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Marc, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de writes: For now I'll send every patch to the mailinglist first. I hope that's fin with you. Sure, though there will probably be cases where you don’t get any answer, either because people have little interest in it, or because those who do have an

Re: [Nix-dev] Should I revert my last Eclipse patch or shall I extend the expression?

2010-04-23 Thread Marc Weber
Hi Marc, That is way, way to complicated. There is absolutely no need whatsoever to adopt such a complex approach. You need to adopt the positive method of : If it is constant and does exist, do something else exit. Not, wild card, haystack, yes/no. Tony, you should think about it in a

[Nix-dev] grub 2 and long delays when booting

2010-04-23 Thread Marc Weber
Hi list, when trying to boot my system I have to wait maybe a minute until I can see the kernel message and NixOS booting. adding set debug=disk to the boot item reveals that grub is trying to read from hd0(0,6), however the system is located on /dev/sda6.. ? I used reiserfs for that