Hi, Since last week there is a new NixOS channel:
https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-14.04-small This is a variant of the regular NixOS 14.04 channel mainly intended for servers that need fast security updates. It differs from the regular 14.04 channel in the following ways: * It builds way, way fewer packages. In particular, there is no desktop stuff, and no gazillion Python/Perl/Haskel/... packages. * It has fewer release-critical tests. For instance, it doesn't require any of the X11 tests to succeed. * It only builds x86_64 binaries. These properties mean that the channel can update in about 2-3 hours after a Git commit that causes a full rebuild, rather than several days. The downside is that nixos-rebuild may need to build more stuff from source than with the regular channel. To switch an existing system to this channel: $ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-14.04-small nixos $ nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade The channel currently builds a fairly arbitrary set of packages. These are defined here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/release-14.04/nixos/release-small.nix Feel free to add/suggest additional packages. The Hydra jobset is: http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/release-14.04-small and the status of the release-critical jobs is here: http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixos/release-14.04-small/tested#tabs-constituents -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev