On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 11:22:26PM +0200, Bjørn Forsman wrote: > On 3 April 2013 18:25, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <vi...@viric.name> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 06:23:53PM +0200, Moritz Ulrich wrote: > >> I like the torrent approach too, but I'd like to see a wiki page > >> documenting the steps how to build a tarball (the current 'Cross > >> Compiling' page is a bit rough on that matter). > > > > These are not cross-built. There is no way to cross-build a > > 'system-tarball'. > > So system-tarballs can only be built for the system running NixOS > (build==host==target)?
Yes > Is there a way we could build it using either cross-compilation or > QEMU system emulation? This can be done, yes. You just need the proper kernel, that can be cross-built. > I'd really like to have an automated way to bootstrap NixOS for > various architectures. Like a replacement for Buildroot, OpenEmbedded > etc. in nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/linux there is a nix expression that I used to bootstrap a pure stdenv. NixOS is not thought at all to be cross-built, by now. I used 'nanonixos' as a system that can be cross-built, but it's totally independant of nixos. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev