maxJobs = pkgs.lib.mkForce 4; worked. Thanks all! I have a lot to learn about NixOS configuration.
On 18 February 2015 at 02:25, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 18/02/15 08:25, James Cook wrote: > >> I can't set nix.maxJobs in configuration.nix, because it is set in >> hardware-configuration.nix: >> >> error: The unique option `nix.maxJobs' is defined multiple times, in >> `/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix' and >> `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix'. >> >> Of course, I could work around this by editing >> hardware-configuration.nix, but then the change would be lost the next >> time I run nixos-generate-config. Is there a better way to do this? > > This should work: > > nix.maxJobs = mkForce 4; > > I guess the option definition in hardware-configuration.nix should be given a > lower priority to prevent this problem. > > -- > Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
