On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Florian Friesdorf <f...@chaoflow.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 11:19:25 +0100, Mathijs Kwik <math...@bluescreen303.nl> 
> 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!

>
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