On 12/20/2012 06:16 PM, Richard Wallace wrote:
Cool. Although I admit I'm still a bit lost on where the nix.conf
file is supposed to go. I tried every location I could think of for
the `prefix` in `prefix/nix/nix.conf` and none of those worked.
On NixOS, we set NIX_CONF_DIR=/etc/nix, and the configuration file goes
in /etc/nix/nix.conf. The nix in the binary tarball is built with
sysconfdir in the nix store (which you can't modify), so NIX_CONF_DIR is
the only way to override it.
I also had to use a slightly different path than you suggested in the
PR, `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/rwallace/channels/binary-caches/*`.
Ah, thanks, fixed the pull request.
So for now I'm passing the option manually. :(
Any suggestions?
Thanks again,
Rich
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Shea Levy <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 12/20/2012 05:28 PM, Richard Wallace wrote:
Aha. That should probably be mentioned in the manual under the
"Single-user mode" section[1] of the manual.
Already a pull request: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/72 :)
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]
<mailto:[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/`
<http://nixos.org/binary-cache/%60>. 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.
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<http://nixos.org/%7Eeelco/>
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