thanks, I ended up getting rid of tmpfs, causes more hassle than what it is worth
On 14 December 2016 at 17:37, Joachim Schiele <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13.12.2016 16:14, Azul wrote: > > Hey gang, > > > > Trying to do a nixos-rebuild where I added libreoffice to my list of > > packages failing due to lack of disk space. > > My /tmp is on tmpfs, so limited in disk space. > > > > I tried to set NIX_REMOTE="" and TMPDIR=/var/tmp/ but no joy, > > nixos-rebuild just tells me to sod off and does its own thing. > > > > is there a way to tell nixos-rebuild to use my TMPDIR settings ? > > > > azul > > > man nix-build > > lets to: > > TMPDIR > Use the specified directory to store temporary files. In > particular, this includes temporary build directories; these can take up > substantial amounts of disk space. The default is /tmp. > > so: > > TMPDIR=/foo nix-build -A whatever > > should do the trick >
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