On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 11:19:25 +0100, Mathijs Kwik <[email protected]> > wrote: >> (..) >> I'm pretty sure this used to work fine some time ago. I first noticed >> it when rebuilding my entire system on the stdenv-updates branch, but >> maybe it has been going on before. > > Sorry, not an answer to your question, but in case you did not know yet, > recently learned on irc: > > sudo nix-pull > http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/stdenv/channel/latest/MANIFEST > > The server will dynamically generate the MANIFEST, it therefore takes a > bit before the download starts. But once finished you the amount of > packages you need to compile is drastically reduced.
Is that an extra channel, just for stdenv? That will indeed save a lot of time :) Doesn't really help me for the stuff I do need to build though. Thanks! > > -- > Florian Friesdorf <[email protected]> > GPG FPR: 7A13 5EEE 1421 9FC2 108D BAAF 38F8 99A3 0C45 F083 > Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] > IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
