I'm interested in this area as well.

Graham wrote some tooling to enable hydra to build PR's (
https://github.com/grahamc/hydra-prs/). Combined with a github bot this is
getting close to what you're aiming for. (The bot is necessary given that
we don't want to run any PR without a manual code review on this public
project).


2017-05-09 22:44 GMT+02:00 Harmen <har...@lijzij.de>:

> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 01:08:08PM +0200, Maarten Hoogendoorn wrote:
> > Unfortunately this does not really help with sharing derivations that
> have
> > been built before.
>
> Thanks for all the replies. Seems like I didn't miss anything obvious.
>
> My current plan is to try gitlab with my own runner, which has a 'shell
> executor' option.
> https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/shell.html
> That looks like to be exactly what I need for nix based builds.
>
>
> Is this use-case of nix so uncommon (push-triggered builds)? Do most
> people go for Hydra?
>
> Thanks!
> Harmen
>
> >
> > 2017-05-09 10:02 GMT+02:00 zimbatm <zimb...@zimbatm.com>:
> >
> > > Travis CI also has support for nix builds and might be easier to setup.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 8 May 2017, 18:17 Tomasz Czyż, <tomasz.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> https://nixos.org/hydra/
> > >>
> > >> and
> > >>
> > >> https://github.com/hercules-ci/hercules ( looks like still in heavy
> > >> development but maybe usable :))
> > >>
> > >> 2017-05-08 18:14 GMT+01:00 Harmen <har...@lijzij.de>:
> > >>
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm trying to see how I can make my build processes easier with nix.
> So
> > >>> far
> > >>> it's going pretty good and it's fun, although there was a lot of
> > >>> searching
> > >>> online for scattered documents.
> > >>>
> > >>> Want I want to do (as the first thing to change to nix in
> production) is
> > >>> to
> > >>> port the building of some docker images I use for testing. The idea
> is to
> > >>> have docker images build, tagged with their branch they come from,
> when
> > >>> someone
> > >>> pushes something. The building and pushing an sich work. The .nix
> files
> > >>> live in
> > >>> the repo, and with a `make docker` the image is build and uploaded.
> I'm
> > >>> very
> > >>> happy to be able to build docker images without actually having to
> use
> > >>> docker
> > >>> ;)
> > >>>
> > >>> So, what would be the recommended way to trigger the building
> process?
> > >>> I'm
> > >>> currently using drone.io, but that works with containers. It works
> with
> > >>> nix,
> > >>> when I give it the nixos/nix docker image, but building a node
> project
> > >>> takes
> > >>> about 5 minutes, and drags in way too much from cache.nixos.org. I
> > >>> tried to
> > >>> have it make a local nix binary-cache, but there are some problems
> > >>> there, but
> > >>> drone also just doesn't fit the problem nicely.  Nix solves the
> problem
> > >>> of
> > >>> versioning so much nicer than containers that I would prefer to use
> > >>> something
> > >>> simpler. Hydra could work, but I'm a bit intimidated by that, and
> would
> > >>> like to
> > >>> have something simpler for now.
> > >>>
> > >>> The LT;DR: question: is there a simple nix based build system which
> can
> > >>> be
> > >>> triggered via git{hub,lab} hooks?
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks!
> > >>> Harmen
> > >>> (If there is a better place to ask this, let me know)
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> > >>
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