Hi Eelco, On 16 December 2014 at 18:56, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new stable release of the > Nix package manager. Release 1.8 can be found at [...]
Many nice features. Looking forward to try them out :-) > • nix-store --read-log can now fetch remote build logs. If a build log is > not > available locally, then ‘nix-store -l’ will now try to download it from > the > servers listed in the ‘log-servers’ option in nix.conf. For instance, if > you have the configuration option > > log-servers = http://hydra.nixos.org/log > > then it will try to get logs from http://hydra.nixos.org/log/base name of > the store path. This allows you to do things like: > > $ nix-store -l $(which xterm) > > and get a log even if xterm wasn't built locally. Nice! But the first thing I think of when reading this is, why isn't log files just one of the outputs of a derivation? We have ".dev" and ".lib" outputs, why not a ".log" derivation output? Wouldn't that be easier? Best regards, Bjørn Forsman _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
