Just to let you know I'm doing a happy dance right now :-) Great stuff!
Wout. On Sep 30, 2014 2:27 AM, "Eelco Dolstra" <eelco.dols...@logicblox.com> wrote: > 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 >
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