Hi Matthias, I remember a similar conversation we had a few months ago. If you use sudo, you can skip the signature checking:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg18560.html It's not ideal - but does this same method get you unstuck? On 14 June 2016 at 01:19, Matthias Beyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a bit angry right now because things do not just work. > > I tried for almost three hours now to build my system on a remote machine. > It took 1 hour to build the packages (yesod, yesod-persistent and some more > dependencies of yesod and git-annex, see #16210) and then I couldn't download > them from the remote machine because of some signatures missing. > > I tried to use nix-serve, but again... signatures missing. I generated a > keypair, did a nix-push to some directory, but then I couldn't download the > packages because the private key wasn't in the right path or something like > this. This is by the way completely undocumented (the manpage tells you > something of a *sysconfdir* ... but leaves unspecified what that is) - only > the > error message will tell you that it is /etc/nix (which isn't present if you > install nix on a non-nixos system... leading to more confusion). After putting > the private key into this path it starts complaining about the rights of the > file (either a "everyone is able to read this and that shouldn't be the > case"-like error message or some "Cannot read key" because there are too few > rights...) ... and again: completely undocumented what rights are sufficient > (this time not even the error message tells you what rights are to be > expected). > > Can someone please provide a tutorial on how to build packages or a whole > system > on another machine? I do not want to mess around with keys and such ... I just > want to build my system/package on that other machine... I have access via SSH > (key) and that's it. > > I really don't want to rebuild all this haskell stuff every two weeks on my > notebook... I still wonder why it isn't available as binary substitute... > someone on IRC pointed out that there were changes in the haskell > infrastructure... I don't understand why that means that substitutes are no > longer available (and I really do not want to have to understand it... I just > want to _use_ it). > > Please don't feel offended by this mail. I'm just really frustrated right now. > > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen, > Kind regards, > Matthias Beyer > > Proudly sent with mutt. > Happily signed with gnupg. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
