Hi all,
Greg Kroah-Hartman has just announced[1] that the Linux 3.10 series will be
maintained as a longterm stable kernel. As we just recently changed the default
kernel for NixOS to 3.4, last year's stable, I thought it might be good to come
up with a policy for how we update our default
Whoops, thanks!
On Jul 30, 2013, at 7:00, Sander van der Burg svanderb...@gmail.com wrote:
Branch: refs/heads/master
Home: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
Commit: c1fcb0c2e60743b5d052043c94f2d6934ec89b32
Fixed this now, sorry.
On May 30, 2013, at 18:21, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote:
Hi,
On 30/05/13 11:47, Peter Simons wrote:
the node packages set defines attributes that include many fancy
characters, including white space:
$ nix-env -qaP \* | egrep node.*event
Awesome, thanks!
On May 23, 2013, at 12:26, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote:
Branch: refs/heads/master
Home: https://github.com/NixOS/nix
Commit: 18a48d80a0686ba81959057e8becc6272acd6c46
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/18a48d80a0686ba81959057e8becc6272acd6c46
Already fixed
https://github.com/NixOS/nixos/compare/edd77af3fe33...9b4991d3f465
On May 13, 2013, at 16:42, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote:
Good evening all.
It appears I've broken btrfs root booting.
The upgraded version needs 2 more libraries (or a static build).
I can just
Perhaps some builder actually created /homeless-shelter at some point, and its
permissions don't allow other build users to traverse the directory?
On Apr 3, 2013, at 3:21, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to build a modified mplayer2, and fetchgit fails for
nix-prefetch-url prints out the base32 flat hash. There should be some flag to
nix-hash to print base32, but it's equivalent to the hex hash.
On Apr 1, 2013, at 4:42, Bjørn Forsman bjorn.fors...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 April 2013 10:19, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote:
When I run sha256sum
is a screen shot where it has offered me login line, upper left,
and then continues, after a half second, to check off reaching the
graphical interface as successful.
http://imgur.com/M8sERV0 [7]
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com wrote:
Hi Patrick
Hi Patrick,
No, there's no need to switch. When you ran the journalctl command, was that
during a boot where the X server failed? The log you shared looked like
everything was working.
~Shea
On Feb 26, 2013, at 1:01, Patrick Wheeler patrick.john.whee...@gmail.com
wrote:
I garbage collected
Hi Александр,
On Feb 16, 2013, at 12:56, Александр Цамутали asts...@yandex.ru wrote:
Branch: refs/heads/master
Home: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
Commit: fa7b10255cb57923f9197f2dda7e166572242e0e
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/fa7b10255cb57923f9197f2dda7e166572242e0e
Hi,
Thanks for the report. I believe my latest commit to nixos should have fixed
this, please let me know if you still have issues.
Thanks,
Shea
On Feb 15, 2013, at 14:25, Karn Kallio tierplusplusli...@gmail.com wrote:
The new NixOS websockify module
Hi Luke,
If your application is something that should go into $PATH, you should
put it into enviroment.systemPackages, e.g. environment.systemPackages =
[ (import /path/to/my/package.nix) ]; On the other hand, if it's
something that only needs to be run by a systemd unit, you'll need to
Hi Danny,
Unfortunately, there's not a good answer to this because
-march=native is inherently impure. Is there any reason you can't
tell users "Find out what -march=native means on your system and
then fill in nixpkgs.config.extra_cflags with the result?"
cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=4096 -mtune=generic
-O3
Shea Levy
7
februari 2013 15:33
Hi Danny,
Unfortunately, there's not a good
list
nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl
http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Shea Levy
7
februari 2013 16:01
a
reminder about adding this?
Shea Levy
7
februari 2013 16:01
OK, well technically
Hi Christopher,
If you install pythonPackages.recursivePythonLoader, then setting
PYTHONPATH=$HOME/.nix-profile/lib/python2.7/site-packages should work
for all nix-installed python packages.
Thanks,
Shea
On 02/01/2013 08:23 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:
Hi. Question for the python savvy
Hello,
For interactive usage, you want to install pythonFull (nix-env -iA
nixpkgs.pythonFull). That has readline support etc.
~Shea
On 01/30/2013 03:10 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:
Hi. I used nix to install python-2.7.3 on an older Linux system using
Nix. Overall, seems to work fine, except
On 01/28/2013 10:14 AM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
Hi,
On 28/01/13 14:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
In principle there could be just one expression in Nixpkgs, and the
package’s release.nix would just use ‘overrideDerivation’ to change the
‘src’ attribute of that expression to point to the result of
Committed in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/90909ea936def048f39818fca98ff4ad9d0cf821,
thanks!
On 01/24/2013 10:48 PM, Karn Kallio wrote:
The latest version of system-config-printer seems to have introduced a
dependency on pycurl. The attached patch includes this, fixing the build of
On 01/21/2013 05:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hi,
Florian Friesdorf f...@chaoflow.net skribis:
Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org writes:
Florian Friesdorf f...@chaoflow.net skribis:
What are your thoughts on generating nix expressions from guix
expressions for the purpose of package
On 01/23/2013 06:12 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com skribis:
On 01/21/2013 05:39 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
[...]
In theory yes, because ‘import’ in the Nix language can import .drv
files–a little-known feature. ;-)
In practice, though, it can only do
Hello,
The problem is not with the tarball per se, it's with nixpkgs. To fix
the issue, you can either update your nix version to at least nix 1.2,
or wait until
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5626c5cdfb6de664881eb8b79dd54a8f4ca19b8f
hits the nixpkgs channel so it will still work
(or to every
one that is not), it would be pretty easy to then provide a way for them
to ensure their system only has those packages, but that initial work is
not trivial.
Cheers,
Shea Levy
On 01/12/2013 09:14 AM, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
Hi,
I've been told some time ago that it's possible
On 01/12/2013 10:59 AM, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
The problem is not with the tarball per se, it's with nixpkgs. To fix the
issue, you can either update your nix version to at least nix 1.2, or wait
until https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/
5626c5cdfb6de664881eb8b79dd54a8f4ca19b8f hits the
On 01/12/2013 11:25 AM, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
HYDRA_DISALLOW_UNFREE was designed for our buildfarm, where unfree means
not
legally distributable. Since the kernel is legal to distribute despite the
binary firmware blobs (I assume that's your objection?),
HYDRA_DISALLOW_UNFREE
will block
On 01/12/2013 11:29 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:11:37AM -0500, Shea Levy wrote:
On 01/12/2013 10:59 AM, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
The problem is not with the tarball per se, it's with nixpkgs. To fix the
issue, you can either update your nix version to at least
On 01/12/2013 01:33 PM, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
I believe that if you do 'nix-env -iA nix' (note the 'A'), you'll be
able to install the newer nix without hitting the issue in
replace-dependency.
# nix-env -iA nix
error: attribute `nix' in selection path `nix' not found
Ah, right, you'll
On 01/12/2013 04:57 PM, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
Thanks, the latter did the job.
Oh, it failed.
[...]
glibc-ports-2.13/sysdeps/z8000/mul_1.s
glibc-ports-2.13/sysdeps/z8000/sub_n.s
configure flags: --disable-static
--prefix=/nix/store/zcfiac107h1nji9sdiv2m1dzpvvagrh5-glibc-2.13 -C
On 01/10/2013 02:07 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
On 01/10/2013 02:02 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:
A few questions, to help me understand how Nix works: Nix being a fully
deterministic package management system, does that mean that the exact
dependencies required by each package are fixed, i.e. do
On 01/10/2013 02:02 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:
A few questions, to help me understand how Nix works: Nix being a fully
deterministic package management system, does that mean that the exact
dependencies required by each package are fixed, i.e. do not change over
time for a specific package
Hello,
On 01/07/2013 05:57 AM, Rickard Nilsson wrote:
Hi,
The system.requiredKernelConfig configuration option in NixOS should allow
one to specify kernel config options a module needs. But how is it
supposed to work? I'm creating a service for FSCache/CacheFiles (caching
NFS or CIFS files
On Jan 6, 2013, at 13:19, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote:
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru wrote:
But instead of just having to wait for a while, the whole experience
was a lot less pleasant, as the build process errored out every hour
or so,
On 12/20/2012 05:28 PM, Richard Wallace wrote:
Aha. That should probably be mentioned in the manual under the
Single-user mode section[1] of the manual.
Already a pull request: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/72 :)
It might also be nice if that could be autodetected by the
/boot/whatever
Cheers,
Shea Levy
On 12/20/2012 05:44 PM, Jan Malakhovski wrote:
Hello,
commit a9edaf10ed7570f66f17130c82a4e4170e80bfbb
Merge: 5f8647e c6bf1f8
Author: aszlig asz...@redmoonstudios.org
Date: Fri Dec 7 18:48:26 2012 +0100
Merge pull request #207 from washort
Argh, sorry, Thunderbird wrapped where it shouldn't have. For
clarification, the commands are:
# $(nix-build -A system nixos
--no-out-link)/bin/switch-to-configuration test
# nixos-rebuild switch/boot/whatever
On 12/20/2012 05:50 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
Hi Jan,
This is actually a problem
/per-user/rwallace/channels/binary-caches/*`.
Ah, thanks, fixed the pull request.
So for now I'm passing the option manually. :(
Any suggestions?
Thanks again,
Rich
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com
mailto:s...@shealevy.com wrote:
On 12/20/2012 05:28 PM
On 12/12/2012 02:30 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com wrote:
On 12/11/2012 09:28 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
Hi Eelco,
great work!
Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com writes:
* Nix no longer sets the immutable bit on files
On 12/12/2012 11:07 AM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
Hi,
On 12/12/12 03:28, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
* New primops: concatLists, elem, elemAt and filter.
The elem library function evaluates all list elements instead of
returning true after finding a matching element.
Sure about that? This
On 12/12/2012 11:20 AM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
Hi,
On 12/12/12 17:15, Shea Levy wrote:
The elem library function evaluates all list elements instead of
returning true after finding a matching element.
Sure about that? This seems lazy enough:
elem =
builtins.elem or
(x
On 12/12/2012 11:30 AM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
Hi,
On 12/12/12 17:24, Shea Levy wrote:
Huh? I didn't change the argument order, this is still a left fold. this just
short-circuits the eval of (x == a) when bs is true.
fold is actually a right fold :-)
Oh, right. Sorry for the noise
On 12/12/2012 01:12 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com writes:
Hi,
On 12/12/12 17:15, Shea Levy wrote:
The elem library function evaluates all list elements instead of
returning true after finding a matching element.
Sure about that? This seems lazy
On 12/12/2012 01:12 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com writes:
Hi,
On 12/12/12 17:15, Shea Levy wrote:
The elem library function evaluates all list elements instead of
returning true after finding a matching element.
Sure about that? This seems lazy
On 12/11/2012 09:28 PM, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
Hi Eelco,
great work!
Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com writes:
* Nix no longer sets the immutable bit on files in the Nix store. Instead,
the recommended way to guard the Nix store against accidental modification
on Linux
On 12/07/2012 10:24 AM, Marc Weber wrote:
Thank you all for those improvements
* Nix has a new binary substituter mechanism: the binary cache. A binary
cache contains pre-built binaries of Nix packages. Whenever Nix wants to
build a missing Nix store path, it will check a set of
On 11/29/2012 02:00 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
While at the subject of random number generation, I would like to plug
the frandom package (+kernel module), , as it has been very useful
to me. It is available in NixOS through the use of
services.frandom.enable = true.
It uses the kernel random
Hi Peter,
rngd has three potential sources of randomness: the RdRand instruction
present in some x86 cpus, a system hardware random number generator at
/dev/hwrng (not /dev/hwrandom), or a trusted platform module at
/dev/tpm0. If your cpu doesn't support RdRand and you don't have either
of
/22/2012 04:45 AM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
Hi,
On 22/11/12 08:07, Shea Levy wrote:
Branch: refs/heads/systemd
Home: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos
Commit: cd513482d46c41243934ef5835cda30ca228c474
https://github.com/NixOS/nixos/commit/cd513482d46c41243934ef5835cda30ca228c474
On 11/22/2012 10:52 AM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
Hi,
On 22/11/12 16:19, Shea Levy wrote:
Argh, thanks. rngd has three possible sources of randomness, and two of
them of devices (the third is a special x86 instruction). Ideally it
would listen to uevents if those devices don't exist when
Is it terribly difficult to run nix-prefetch-git? Built-in vcs-specific support
doesn't strike me as simplification.
On Nov 19, 2012, at 7:10 AM, Joachim Schiele j...@lastlog.de wrote:
- Original message -
Excerpts from Eelco Dolstra's message of Mon Nov 19 11:36:00 +0100 2012:
On 11/18/2012 08:00 PM, Nicolas Pierron wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote:
I'd force the user to set a config option like this:
~/.nixpkgs/config.nix:
{
proprietary-licenses-accept.your-package = true;
}
and only allow installing the
Hi Eelco,
I've already fixed this issue in NixOS master, and the usage of toPath
was incorrect in that case anyway. Any current uses of toPath aren't
getting the desired behavior anyway (and AFAICT never have), so isn't it
better to expose these cases where the expression author misunderstood
On 11/15/2012 05:55 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
Hi Shea,
On 15/11/12 23:14, Shea Levy wrote:
I've already fixed this issue in NixOS master, and the usage of toPath was
incorrect in that case anyway. Any current uses of toPath aren't getting the
desired behavior anyway (and AFAICT never have
On 11/09/2012 01:06 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
Hi Peter,
On 09/11/12 18:57, Peter Simons wrote:
we should link /bin/sh to Dash instead of Bash. That would catch any
implicit dependencies on non-POSIX shell features,
What's the point of that? Breaking zillions of existing scripts
Thanks for the fixes!
On 10/26/2012 05:13 AM, Michael Raskin wrote:
Branch: refs/heads/master
Home: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
Commit: 5e071cd74de9c525f7d40e5d94acc362df6be856
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5e071cd74de9c525f7d40e5d94acc362df6be856
Author:
Hi Bryce,
Matching the headers to the kernel version would mean recompiling the
entire system for each kernel, to almost no gain. Linux is very very
good about being backwards compatible, so barring some important new
feature there's no reason to use a newer version of the kernel headers.
Hi Sander,
On 10/09/2012 08:39 AM, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote:
I know that almost nobody uses Java GUI applications nowadays, but I
have noticed that I cannot run AWT/Swing applications with OpenJDK
(although the Oracle JDK works fine). For example, I cannot run
netbeans with OpenJDK.
:* Tuesday, October 09, 2012 2:51 PM
*To:* Shea Levy
*Cc:* nix-...@cs.uu.nl
*Subject:* Re: [Nix-dev] openjdk cannot run GUI applications in NixOS
Something like this:
[INFO] --- gwt-maven-plugin:2.4.0:run (default-cli) @
backend-web-admin ---
[INFO] create exploded Jetty webapp in
/home/sander
On 09/26/2012 06:01 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
Hi all,
I have a store path that seems to refer to itself only, but I can't delete it.
How can I proceed?
mathijs@bluebook nixos% nix-store --query --referrers-closure
/nix/store/q6qapspkz2g4jlgnagiabrfvw32say9v-xine-lib-1.2.2
On 09/26/2012 07:12 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Shea Levys...@shealevy.com wrote:
On 09/26/2012 06:01 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
Hi all,
I have a store path that seems to refer to itself only, but I can't delete
it.
How can I proceed?
mathijs@bluebook nixos%
On 09/26/2012 07:49 AM, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Marc Webermarco-owe...@gmx.de wrote:
Try such:
STORE_PATH=/nix/store/jra1icncr6bfp9ysjf858z9rs3r54h4
follow_link_rec(){
if [ -s $1 ]; then
[ /nix/store == ${1:0:10} ] echo $1
I personally have no stake in what the patch itself does, but IMO it'd
be nice if the original author of the patch submitted it as a pull
request so all the authorship information is tracked. That's up to him
if he wants to do it, of course.
On 09/26/2012 08:36 PM, Joachim Schiele wrote:
On 09/05/2012 06:02 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
Hello,
I've been told in #libreoffice-dev that libreoffice uses dlopen for some
libraries:
- librsvg: import SVG
- libsane: Scan
- libebook: I don't know
I'd be interested in SVG support (or simpress coloured templates don't work).
I
Hello all,
Due to major PEBKAC error, I accidentally pushed my local merge of the
systemd branch to the official NixOS git. Hoping I caught it in time, I
force-pushed back to what it should be. If you happened to pull between
around 10:35 AM EDT and 10:41 AM EDT on September 3, 2012, you will
On 09/03/2012 09:44 AM, rocon...@theorem.ca wrote:
Every time I try to nixos-rebuild a 2.6 kernel I get the error:
b43 firmware for kernels older than 3.2 not packaged yet!
even though the enableB43Firmware option is disabled.
Should be fixed in f701e8d420c1a0114239bab3b9196a2c98f6f813
On Aug 12, 2012, at 8:49 PM, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote:
Excerpts from Eelco Dolstra's message of Mon Aug 13 01:54:35 +0200 2012:
Unfortunately no, because this patch would introduce an untracked side
effect to
evaluation, namely creating files in a non-store location.
If you're not careful, nix may soon be a general purpose language ;)
In seriousness, hooray for optimization!
On Aug 13, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote:
Branch: refs/heads/master
Home: https://github.com/NixOS/nix
Commit:
Hi,
On Aug 7, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote:
Hi all,
Is there a problem with the nix channel?
It hasn't been updated for 2 days.
Is there a schedule (ie once a day) that it updates?
The channel only updates when all the tests at
Hi Daniel,
Is this patch related to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/74, or
are they completely orthogonal?
Cheers,
Shea
On 08/01/2012 09:13 PM, Daniel Santa Cruz wrote:
---
pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/snap/loader-dynamic.nix | 14
++
On Jul 30, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Mathijs Kwik math...@bluescreen303.nl wrote:
Just to clarify a bit more:
https://github.com/bluescreen303/nixpkgs/commit/06b659f2537fdcfcb815c2f28c453337323b08af
That commit works, but I think it's ugly.
There, you can see how this will quickly get out of
On Jul 26, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote:
Hi,
On 26/07/12 14:11, Shea Levy wrote:
Commit: 51765e6333baad22adbdb878f2c1018f05f63645
https://github.com/NixOS/nixos/commit/51765e6333baad22adbdb878f2c1018f05f63645
Author: Shea Levy s
On Jul 24, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Bryce L Nordgren bnordg...@gmail.com wrote:
If I could ask the dumb question...Certainly a particular build has only one
derivation (the deriver in the manifest), but can a derivation have more
than one build? I notice that References in the manifest refers to
Hi Marco,
On Jul 22, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Marco Maggesi magg...@math.unifi.it wrote:
Hello,
I installed git with nix on darwin.
When I try to use remote (github) repositories I get an SSL error:
soyuz:nixpkgs maggesi$ git pull
error: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer
This PR has been sitting for quite a while, have any Xen users had a chance to
test it?
On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Peter Simons
reply+i-5388473-8853560938c30fc195af51944beffdce12d16002-487...@reply.github.com
wrote:
I don't use Xen myself, so I'd appreciate if someone who does could review
On Jul 10, 2012, at 6:38 AM, Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com wrote:
Branch: refs/heads/master
Home: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
Commit: a6c8986ee03ab8573b9d7028f847841a97d30835
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/a6c8986ee03ab8573b9d7028f847841a97d30835
Author: Shea Levy
On Jul 8, 2012, at 11:46 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote:
Hi,
On 07/07/12 09:55, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Golden Rule:
Never ever add a dependency on Autoconf, Automake, or Libtool, unless
you’re confident that you cannot do otherwise at all.
The point of these
Hi Ludo,
Very cool work, I'll have to check it out. One queston and one quick note:
On Jul 7, 2012, at 5:55 PM, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
in Guix, the cheat code is
the ‘nixpkgs-derivation’ procedure. :-)
Does the referenced derivation need to actually be in nixpkgs? I assume
Hi Mathijs,
I've not fully read the thread, but just so you know overrides are done with a
special attribute called __overrides, which has a more confusing semantics than
simply a rec. See
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/master/src/libexpr/eval.cc#L525 for some
documentation, and the
Hi Eelco,
On Jul 4, 2012, at 10:30 AM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote:
Hi,
On 04/07/12 10:25, Shea Levy wrote:
chromium: Extend update script to use channels.
I don't think that Nixpkgs should (generally speaking) contain prerelease
versions of packages unless
Hello,
As discussed in the 'improving development experience' thread, I would like to
create some documentation about the various policies and procedures relevant to
contributing to the nix projects. A few notes:
* My efforts are not in any way official. Though I do hope that
Ah, looks like Peter beat me too it.
Peter, have you committed/opened pull requests for all of Jan's patches or are
there some more that need looking over?
~Shea
On Jun 26, 2012, at 11:09 PM, Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com wrote:
Anyway, I don't have any meaningful change history. I can
On Jul 2, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote:
Hi Shea,
Peter, have you committed/opened pull requests for all of Jan's
patches or are there some more that need looking over?
yeah, I've pushed (or opened pull requests) for all of them. I'm sorry
if I've duplicated your
On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:36 AM, Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru wrote:
It looks like the main project will be conservative enough to be simple
to pull...
Are you basing this assessment only on the git situation over the last 6
days, or do you consider the project pre-git to be fairly
Hi Michi,
On Jun 27, 2012, at 8:02 AM, Michael Weiss w...@borasi.de wrote:
Greetings,
I'd like to derail the discussion about policy and focus on the parts
about how to reduce the need to agree on policy. As others have pointed
out, nix is great for having your own cake and I want to
Hi Petr,
On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Petr Rockai m...@mornfall.net wrote:
Hi folks,
Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com writes:
That's why I opened this thread, because we have people with different
values but no one is really coming out and saying this is what I
want, this is why what's here
On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:32:33PM +0200, Petr Rockai wrote:
Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com writes:
That's why I opened this thread, because we have people with different
values but no one is really coming out
On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru wrote:
Well, it was just an example. My point was merely that it's not enough to
point out a problem, whenever possible you should point out solutions and
be willing to do the legwork necessary to implement them.
The real
On Jun 27, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru wrote:
- There is a reasonable public place where I can see every package
expression used by any committer. So, if someone uses a git-head version
of kernel, it would be nice to see what overrides were needed.
Do you mean some
On Jun 27, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Bryce L Nordgren bnordg...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com wrote:
- On the level of Nix as a package manager, there is a way to roll back
everything but GC
What do you mean, exactly? You can roll back
On Jun 27, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Bryce L Nordgren bnordg...@gmail.com wrote:
Continuing with a Java theme: the Java Advanced Imaging interfaces have a
(default) pure java implementation as well as a native (accelerated)
implementation.
How should this be solved? Try find answers
On Jun 27, 2012, at 6:51 PM, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote:
Excerpts from Shea Levy's message of Thu Jun 28 00:38:16 +0200 2012:
Ok. Why was builderDefs rejected? What problems do you see with it, and what
do others see?
What does reject mean?
Eelco has said on a few occasions that
On Jun 27, 2012, at 7:09 PM, Bryce L Nordgren bnordg...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com wrote:
Well, to be honest I was more hoping for suggestions about how to improve the
developer community, policies, etc. rather than technical
Hi Peter,
On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:45 AM, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote:
- pkgs is a database of free software packages that can be installed
with the Nix package manager.
Will proprietary or non-GPL'd software be allowed to be packaged in free-nix?
Or, what do you
Hi all,
It seems apparent to me that many in the community have some level of
dissatisfaction with how contributions to the various nix projects are handled.
Sometimes the only solution to problems like this is a fork (as Peter seems to
believe), but I think there is a good chance that things
Hi Jan,
On Jun 26, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Jan Malakhovski o...@oxij.org wrote:
Hello.
I've made a bunch of changes to nixpkgs that I would like to share.
Thanks for contributing!
* new-and-fixes.patch
* adds
* libraries
* gconfmm -- This
* gtkglextmm -- and this are not
will be willing to take part in the
conversation.
Cheers,
Shea
On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Shea Levy s...@shealevy.com wrote:
Hi all,
It seems apparent to me that many in the community have some level of
dissatisfaction with how contributions to the various nix projects are
handled
On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote:
:) I've been at that point (wanting to fork) in the past as well.
But I couldn't afford the costs. And I also don't think it will benefit
us all splitting the community. I tried to solve the most urgent issues
(patch
Hi Michael,
On Jun 26, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru wrote:
that things can be improved without fracturing the already-small group.
It looks like the main project will be conservative enough to be simple
to pull...
Are you basing this assessment only on the git
Anyway, I don't have any meaningful change history. I can make one up if you
insist, but this could get another year or two.
I'm not hurrying anyone, but if you merge the current set of patches in
sometime I promise to carefully fake meaningful history for the next one. :)
OK, fair
On Jun 24, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Antono Vasiljev s...@antono.info wrote:
I created initial draft (really small) for fonts:
https://github.com/antono/nixpkgs/tree/fonts-policy-proposal/pkgs/data/fonts#font-packaging
What do you think? :)
+1 from me.
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