On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:14:25AM -0400, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > Hi, > > On 23/05/12 06:28, [email protected] wrote: > > > i would like to understand what NIX_OTHER_STORES is good for (i guess it > > is used when installing nixos) and how the different location of this store > > interferes with the problems described above. > > The stores in $NIX_OTHER_STORES must have the same "true" location (i.e. > /nix/store), so they can be used for binary deployment. They idea is that > they're NFS mounts (or similar) of the /nix/store on another machine. The > NixOS > installer uses it to copy stuff from the /nix/store on the installation CD (so > /nix/store is bind-mounted into the target chroot). > > Note however that currently NFS mounts don't work due to SQLite issues.
sshfs mounts work, but only if they are read-write. read-only fails. Regards, Lluís. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
