Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS on Linode

2013-04-10 Thread Malcolm Matalka
Thanks Shea! How do you boot the ISO on Linode. What I did: - Created a small Gentoo disk and a LiveCD disk - Booted into Rescue Mode - Downloaded the http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/latest-iso-minimal-x86_64-linux to the Gentoo disk - dd'd the iso to my LiveCD disk - Modified

Re: [Nix-dev] nix-channel can't process channel data from Hydra

2013-04-10 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Eelco, I use the channel from my own Hydra instance on several machines just fine, but on one of them I get this error during nix-channel --update for no apparent reason: Is this a reproducible problem on that machine? yes, it is. One difference between that machine and those that

Re: [Nix-dev] nix-channel can't process channel data from Hydra

2013-04-10 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 04/10/2013 12:04 PM, Peter Simons wrote: ..., then the tarball referred to by /nix/store/n4hi4l4r5z7z5m20v9v5spwfb9xg728h-hydra-crypto.drv is broken, indeed, it's *not* a valid bz2-compressed tarball. Apparently, nix-channel downloads this file somehow differntly than my manual

[Nix-dev] How to make Hydra generate an overview page

2013-04-10 Thread Peter Simons
Hi guys, Hydra provides overview pages for packages that build on more than one platform -- i.e. http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/gnucash -- that show all builds of that particular package at one glance. Now, Haskell packages vary in two dimensions: the platform and the version of GHC

Re: [Nix-dev] How to make Hydra generate an overview page

2013-04-10 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 10/04/13 15:18, Peter Simons wrote: Hydra provides overview pages for packages that build on more than one platform -- i.e. http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/gnucash -- that show all builds of that particular package at one glance. Now, Haskell packages vary in two

[Nix-dev] Hydra: summary of problems I've encountered

2013-04-10 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Hi. On 04/10/2013 03:58 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: The gnucash job no longer exist, instead there are now jobs named gnucash.i686-linux and so on. A side note: you remind me some problems I've encountered with hydra.nixos.org. - The job status tab now makes less sense. There's a table, but

Re: [Nix-dev] How to make Hydra generate an overview page

2013-04-10 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Eelco, It's on my to-do list to make Hydra /job URLs show all jobs with a given prefix (so /job/nixpkgs/trunk/hsdns would show all hsdns.* jobs). aha, I see. Thank you for the explanation. Take care, Peter ___ nix-dev mailing list

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS wiki

2013-04-10 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 11:55:40AM +0200, Marc Weber wrote: - some offline editing support (git)? we talked about it - and we agree that there are ways - but also pay attention to what Eelco said: He fears that the quality of the contents of the wiki is not that great. So eventually start

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS wiki

2013-04-10 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 04/10/2013 05:44 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 11:55:40AM +0200, Marc Weber wrote: - some offline editing support (git)? we talked about it - and we agree that there are ways - but also pay attention to what Eelco said: He fears that the quality of the contents

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS wiki

2013-04-10 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 05:55:11PM +0200, Vladimír Čunát wrote: On 04/10/2013 05:44 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 11:55:40AM +0200, Marc Weber wrote: - some offline editing support (git)? we talked about it - and we agree that there are ways - but also pay

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS wiki

2013-04-10 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 04/10/2013 06:29 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 05:55:11PM +0200, Vladimír Čunát wrote: I second all that, both online editing and possibility of distributed offline work seems important to me. Well, I don't see distributed offline as a strong requirement. Many

Re: [Nix-dev] NixOS wiki

2013-04-10 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 04/10/2013 06:29 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 05:55:11PM +0200, Vladimír Čunát wrote: I second all that, both online editing and possibility of distributed offline work seems important to me. Well, I don't see distributed offline as a strong requirement. Many