[Nix-dev] GNU Guix 0.7 released

2014-07-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 0.7, representing 660 commits by 13 people over 4 months. This release comes with the first image allowing the GNU operating system to be installed from a USB stick. • About GNU Guix is the functional package manager for the GNU

[Nix-dev] nix-store --serve documentation

2014-07-25 Thread Roger Qiu
Hello, What does `nix-store --serve` do? I can't find any documentation on this command. I found it here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/74859a88e5ac441ec92b2d93cc78ab395eb105e8/nixos/modules/services/misc/nix-ssh-serve.nix Thanks, Roger ___

[Nix-dev] Override package in local default.nix

2014-07-25 Thread Alfredo Di Napoli
Hello guys, I'm trying to get a clean nix-shell for haskell's ghc783. I have tried my usual blueprints, but it's failing with: Running Haddock for hscolour-1.20.3... Preprocessing library hscolour-1.20.3... haddock: unrecognized option `--package=hscolour-1.20.3' unrecognized option `--verbose'

Re: [Nix-dev] Fwd: Reminder about nixpkgs branches

2014-07-25 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 07/25/2014 12:58 AM, Mathnerd314 wrote: NixOS is inherently a state-centric system; it's not this change broke my system but version V of thing X is broken. I don't know what this means. I believe darcs is pretty much the only example of a change-based system, so

[Nix-dev] haskell-env-ghc-7.8.3 fails to build

2014-07-25 Thread Tom Dimiduk
I was looking forward to playing with ghc-7.8 when unstable pushed out the new version this week, but things won't quite build. Any advice on how to debug this? nixos-rebuild --upgrade test ⏎ downloading Nix expressions from `