On 04/08/2014 11:43 PM, Ben Franksen wrote:
BTW, it is currently a common limitation (e.g. in debian) that although one
can have multiple versions of a binary package installed, there can be only
one version of the development package. I think NixOS should be able to
easily avoid such a
Excerpts from Raahul Kumar's message of Tue Apr 08 03:11:03 + 2014:
Thanks Marc, Kiril. Is there a way to create packages such that they don't
provide redundant files? It's a waste of bandwidth to download a file,
then be unable to use it because there is already a copy there. I guess
Hi,
On 08/04/14 09:54, Marc Weber wrote:
I'll give you another useful tip: If you want to save bandwidth then
switch to binary distro. While nixos has had the ability to create
binary differences I'm unsure wether its activated/available at the
moment. It was disabled in the past. Maybe
Eelco Dolstra wrote:
On 08/04/14 09:54, Marc Weber wrote:
Also waste of space/bandwidth always happens because:
- nixos always ships with header files for all libraries
(this could be fixed because nix supports multiple outputs)
Yeah, multiple outputs will fix this eventually
I just ran a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade. I saw a whole bunch of hash
collisions and some other error messages. How do I make them go away?
collision between
`/nix/store/fsymx7fx3bxhr2p1gprvzgdxhxyi77b1-kmod-16/sbin/modprobe' and
I have seen these collisions as well, but I do not understand them. They
don't seem to have a detrimental effect on anything.
-Tom
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Raahul Kumar raahul.ku...@gmail.com wrote:
I just ran a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade. I saw a whole bunch of hash
collisions
First of all, those are not hash collisions, obviously. If those were
SHA-256 collisions, you'd already be famous =).
Those are file collisions, and as you can see, this time the file in
question is /share/man/man2/llistxattr.2.gz, it is provided
by two packages: `man-pages` and `attr`. Since your
Excerpts from Thomas Bereknyei's message of Mon Apr 07 13:48:45 + 2014:
I have seen these collisions as well, but I do not understand them. They
don't seem to have a detrimental effect on anything.
Let me explain: nixos builds a system profile. Eg ls -l /run/current-system/sw
When two
Thanks Marc, Kiril. Is there a way to create packages such that they don't
provide redundant files? It's a waste of bandwidth to download a file,
then be unable to use it because there is already a copy there. I guess
deduplication is what I am looking for.
The /run/current-system was a useful
