[Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r34086 - in nixos/trunk: doc/manual modules/installer/tools

2012-05-13 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Author: eelco Date: Mon May 14 04:12:43 2012 New Revision: 34086 URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34086&sc=1 Log: * nixos-checkout: add an argument to specify the directory where the sources should be stored. E.g. "nixos-checkout /home/eelco/srcs" will check out to /home/eelco/srcs/{nix

[Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r34085 - nixos/trunk/doc/manual

2012-05-13 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Author: eelco Date: Mon May 14 04:01:47 2012 New Revision: 34085 URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34085&sc=1 Log: * Comment out the "Configuration in home directory" chapter. Everything described in that chapter is a bug (e.g. needing to manually create symlinks) that properly belongs in

[Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r34084 - nixos/trunk/doc/manual

2012-05-13 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Author: eelco Date: Mon May 14 03:59:38 2012 New Revision: 34084 URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34084&sc=1 Log: * Describe the NixOS channel. Modified: nixos/trunk/doc/manual/development.xml nixos/trunk/doc/manual/installation.xml nixos/trunk/doc/manual/manual.xml Modified: nixo

[Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r34083 - nixos/trunk/doc/manual

2012-05-13 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Author: eelco Date: Mon May 14 02:02:45 2012 New Revision: 34083 URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34083&sc=1 Log: * Update the installation instructions. Modified: nixos/trunk/doc/manual/installation.xml Modified: nixos/trunk/doc/manual/installation.xml =

[Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r34082 - nixos/trunk/modules/installer/tools

2012-05-13 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Author: eelco Date: Mon May 14 01:56:42 2012 New Revision: 34082 URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34082&sc=1 Log: * nixos-option: clean up the English and the generated file. Modified: nixos/trunk/modules/installer/tools/nixos-option.sh Modified: nixos/trunk/modules/installer/tools/nixo

[Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r34081 - in nixos/trunk/modules: installer/grub system/activation

2012-05-13 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Author: eelco Date: Mon May 14 01:53:47 2012 New Revision: 34081 URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34081&sc=1 Log: * Give an error at evaluation time if boot.loader.grub.device or boot.loader.grub.devices are not set, rather than complaining about it when it's too late. Modified: nixo

[Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r34080 - in nixos/trunk/modules: system/boot tasks

2012-05-13 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Author: eelco Date: Mon May 14 01:33:11 2012 New Revision: 34080 URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34080&sc=1 Log: * Require fileSystems to be set. Modified: nixos/trunk/modules/system/boot/stage-1.nix nixos/trunk/modules/tasks/filesystems.nix Modified: nixos/trunk/modules/system/boot

[Nix-commits] NixOS - Issue 151

2012-05-13 Thread noreply
NixOS #151 (14 May)By Eelco DolstraSplit nixos-optionThe nixos-option command does two completely unrelated things: show option values, and generate a template NixOS configuration. This doesn't make sense, so it should be split into two commands. -- Issue on YellowGrass -- http://yellowgrass.org --

[Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r34079 - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: lib top-level

2012-05-13 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Author: eelco Date: Sun May 13 19:10:57 2012 New Revision: 34079 URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=34079&sc=1 Log: * Work around some problems in tarball checks. Nix wants to open the DB even in read-only mode. Should probably fix that. Also, "or" no longer works like this because it's

Re: [Nix-dev] Bootstrapping NixOS

2012-05-13 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Shea Levy's message of Sun May 13 17:53:52 +0200 2012: > I've never used the bootstrapping archive, but unless it does something > particularly strange it should work on x86-64 Linux. For those who don't know what the bootstrapping archive is/was: Its a 50 to 100MB big file which co

Re: [Nix-dev] Bootstrapping NixOS

2012-05-13 Thread LluĂ­s Batlle i Rossell
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 05:28:07PM +0200, Alexander Foremny wrote: > Unfortunately it appears as if Rackspace doesn't offer i686 Linux > distributions to be run on their Cloud Servers. So I couldn't use the > fixed i686 bootstrapping archive. > > I managed to install NixOS on a Rackspace Cloud Ser

Re: [Nix-dev] Bootstrapping NixOS

2012-05-13 Thread Shea Levy
On 05/13/2012 11:28 AM, Alexander Foremny wrote: > Unfortunately it appears as if Rackspace doesn't offer i686 Linux > distributions to be run on their Cloud Servers. So I couldn't use the > fixed i686 bootstrapping archive. I've never used the bootstrapping archive, but unless it does something

Re: [Nix-dev] Bootstrapping NixOS

2012-05-13 Thread Alexander Foremny
Unfortunately it appears as if Rackspace doesn't offer i686 Linux distributions to be run on their Cloud Servers. So I couldn't use the fixed i686 bootstrapping archive. I managed to install NixOS on a Rackspace Cloud Server running Gentoo. I documented the process of installation on the wiki in c