Aha. That should probably be mentioned in the manual under the "Single-user mode" section[1] of the manual. It might also be nice if that could be autodetected by the 'nix-finish-install' script and setup properly. I was also thrown off the trail because this wasn't the case with nix 1.1.
[1] http://hydra.nixos.org/build/3540507/download/1/manual/#idp15104 On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > On 20/12/12 22:46, Richard Wallace wrote: > > > Oh, that was the problem. I checked after doing `nix-channel --update` > and the > > file `~/.nix-defexpr/channels/binary-caches/nixpkgs` contained > > `http://nixos.org/binary-cache/`. But it looks like it was being > ignored, for > > whatever reason. > > This is because by default, Nix only looks in > /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/binary-caches/* for binary > cache > URLs. So it only checks the channels added by root. There is an option > "binary-caches-files" to overide this. > > -- > Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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