Re: [Nix-dev] Wiki is dead

2016-02-10 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 02/10/2016 02:34 PM, Arseniy Seroka wrote: > Unavailable from Russian and from Netherlands. I forgot to add that I found the 404 yesterday and only confirmed today that it wasn't a short blackout... smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Nix-dev] Installing /nix on nfs-mounted volume possible?

2016-02-10 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 08/02/16 19:15, Wout Mertens wrote: > The problem with nfs nix stores is that the metadata is stored in sqlite, > which > can't guarantee proper locking on nfs. However, if you only write from one > host, > there is no problem. IIRC, SQLite *should* work if you disable WAL mode (by

Re: [Nix-dev] Wiki is dead

2016-02-10 Thread Arseniy Seroka
Unavailable from Russian and from Netherlands. 2016-02-10 16:25 GMT+03:00 Vladimír Čunát : > Wiki is dead (404). Is that intentional? > > --Vladimir > > > ___ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >

[Nix-dev] Wiki is dead

2016-02-10 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Wiki is dead (404). Is that intentional? --Vladimir smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev

Re: [Nix-dev] Using Nix as the preferred package manager for a new language

2016-02-10 Thread stewart mackenzie
Hi Thomas, (I'm unsure who you were addressing :-) but here's my response) I've been studying Peter and Gleb's work. This function is a thing of beauty: [1] On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Thomas Hunger wrote: > I think the idea is exciting but difficult. Some notes /

Re: [Nix-dev] Wiki is dead

2016-02-10 Thread Domen Kožar
Thanks! On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/02/16 14:40, Domen Kožar wrote: > > > It was taken down due to spam bots, I hope Eelco finds time to make it > read-only > > instead of unavailable. > > The wiki is back in read-only mode.

Re: [Nix-dev] Wiki is dead

2016-02-10 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 10/02/16 14:40, Domen Kožar wrote: > It was taken down due to spam bots, I hope Eelco finds time to make it > read-only > instead of unavailable. The wiki is back in read-only mode. I deleted the spam accounts / pages. -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/

[Nix-dev] Trouble installing NixOS on Citrix Xen

2016-02-10 Thread Ben Booth
Hi all, I'm trying to install a NixOS VM onto our Citrix Xen server at work, but I'm running into several issues: - Booting in HVM mode doesn't seem to work at all; the VM just stops on the BIOS screen - Booting in PV mode using pygrub *almost* works, but for some reason Nix creates the

Re: [Nix-dev] Call for participation at the Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2016 (Germany)

2016-02-10 Thread aszlig
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 01:59:34PM +0100, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote: > Dear Cillian, dear Aszlig, if you again want to be part of the event, > please drop us a line. :-) Hereby the line shall be dropped. I'm definitely in at least for the booth, not sure about a talk or workshop though. As usually

Re: [Nix-dev] Wiki is dead

2016-02-10 Thread zimbatm
Is it possible to get a dump using dumpBackup.php ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Export I would like to try something out now that the wiki is read-only. On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 at 16:50 Domen Kožar wrote: > Thanks! > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Eelco Dolstra < >

Re: [Nix-dev] A call for hardware configurations

2016-02-10 Thread Ericson, John
This is a great idea, and I'll be happy to contribute to it! I hope this could really be a killer draw for new users, maybe even those new to Linux. While the NixOS installation procedure isn't so fancy, being reliable over a GUI install that's easy until something hard to debug goes wrong give us

Re: [Nix-dev] A call for hardware configurations

2016-02-10 Thread Emery Hemingway
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:51:34AM -0800, Ericson, John wrote: > 2. Beware of caching generated results. I thought about this too, and I wouldn't want options sprinkled into my config to be forgotten. Perhaps something like install-specific release notes could be generated? I have a prototype