On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 01:29:26PM +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > Hi, > > On 18/03/13 22:51, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > > > The trouble happens because "nixos-rebuild boot" will use your nix 1.5 to > > communicate with your nix 1.2 daemon. > > > > When I see there is a nix update, I usually prefer to use "nixos-rebuild > > boot > > --no-build-nix", so the store doesn't get updated to a new version. > > > > If the store gets updated to a new db version, and the following nixos build > > fails, you end up in your state: the next nixos-rebuild run won't understand > > the store. > > FWIW, nixos-rebuild tries hard to prevent this situation. It only uses the > new > Nix for evaluation, not for accessing the store; the old daemon is used for > that. So the schema should not be upgraded.
Right, but I remember in my case (and maybe others') it deadlocked, I stopped the daemon, and then 'tried' to rebuild nixos. :) _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
