Hi, On 29/07/12 14:17, Peter Simons wrote:
> I tried to install BIND, but nix-env can't do it because Hydra is down. > Curiously enough, it can't build the package from source either! I run > > $ nix-build ~/.nix-defexpr -A bind.src > these derivations will be built: > /nix/store/1wxqfygjhdzf1m40kyrnaf7naw4m28bs-bind-9.7.6-P1.tar.gz.drv > building path(s) > `/nix/store/rfjil9x8zrg3rl0gr7wlg9di3p73pkrr-bind-9.7.6-P1.tar.gz' > > ..., which is supposed to download the source tarball, right? But that > command hangs indefinitely, doing nothing. Try NIX_HASHED_MIRRORS=" " nix-build ... This disables the use of the content-addressed tarball cache that fetchurl uses by default. Note that this doesn't work when you're building through the Nix daemon because the environment variable is not passed. -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
