On 29 January 2015 at 23:03, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 10:58:41PM +0100, Bjørn Forsman wrote: >> On 29 January 2015 at 22:42, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 1) Build a static busybox that works for the purpose. >> > 2) Build release-14.12 or master >> > 3) Commit the busybox to the bootstrap svn repository (if I am correct) >> > 4) Make stdenv reference that busybox >> >> I find step (3) and (4) a bit confusing. Why do we need to (manually) >> copy bootstrap binaries to another repo/server? Why not make the new >> stdenv reference the cross-built busybox "directly" instead? > > It will be directly. The svn thing is just the way to make the binary > available > at nixos.org, if it has not changed since when this information was correct. > This involves asking someone at nixos.org to update the static files from the > svn repository, for nixpkgs references to work.
I still don't understand why that is a good thing. The way I see it, this just makes nixos.org a single point of failure. If nixos.org is down, it will be impossible to (automatically) build new cross-stdenv's? Or..? - Bjørn _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
