Re: [Nix-dev] development environments

2013-02-23 Thread Lucas Paul
I found the Haskell overlay interesting, but I'm left with only a vague idea about what problem it's solving, and how. It mentioned darcs as an example, but I didn't grasp the difference between installing darcs with and without the overlay. Could you elaborate a bit? On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 1:02

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos hackday on 2.3.

2013-02-23 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 02/23/2013 11:56 PM, Nicolas Pierron wrote: Nice list, at what time & timezone would you be hacking, to know if we can provide some help over IRC. Timezone in Ljubljana should be GMT+1. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ n

Re: [Nix-dev] nixos hackday on 2.3.

2013-02-23 Thread Nicolas Pierron
Hi, On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Rok Garbas wrote: > hi guys (i dont believe we have any female user, yet!), Don't assume that. It is hard for them to don't feel excluded, and if any are reading I recommend them to join other groups such as Womoz. > we'll be having again a day when we'll be

[Nix-dev] nixos hackday on 2.3.

2013-02-23 Thread Rok Garbas
hi guys (i dont believe we have any female user, yet!), we'll be having again a day when we'll be working on nixos. as said in subject this hacking will happen on 2.3. in ljubljana, cyberpipe (http://kiberpipa.org). so in case somebody is traveling nearby and would like to join us you'll be more t

[Nix-dev] pathExists

2013-02-23 Thread Marco Maggesi
Hello, I'm trying to create a pdf as follows let pkgs = import {}; in pkgs.texFunctions.runLaTeX { rootFile = ./strengthened.tex; } And I get the following error: ... while evaluating the function at `/Users/maggesi/Devel/nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/nix/default.nix:68:40': while eval

Re: [Nix-dev] "nix-env -i sdl-env" trouble

2013-02-23 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 02/23/2013 12:47 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: I mean IRC. Too much embedded programming for me lately :-) :-D Yes, it's a kind of interrupt. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl

Re: [Nix-dev] "nix-env -i sdl-env" trouble

2013-02-23 Thread Bjørn Forsman
On 23 February 2013 12:46, Bjørn Forsman wrote: > On 23 February 2013 12:28, Vladimír Čunát wrote: >> On 02/23/2013 12:20 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: >>> >>> So by running "nix-env -i env-sdl" (not sdl-env) it works! >> >> Yes, I found that too and thought it's seen from the log I sent... > > Yes it

Re: [Nix-dev] "nix-env -i sdl-env" trouble

2013-02-23 Thread Bjørn Forsman
On 23 February 2013 12:28, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 02/23/2013 12:20 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: >> >> So by running "nix-env -i env-sdl" (not sdl-env) it works! > > Yes, I found that too and thought it's seen from the log I sent... Yes it does. I had *just* gotten back from IRQ and I guess I didn

[Nix-dev] Fwd: Re: "nix-env -i sdl-env" trouble

2013-02-23 Thread Aristid Breitkreuz
Sending to lists is hard. -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Von: arist...@gmail.com Datum: 23.02.2013 12:31 Betreff: Re: [Nix-dev] "nix-env -i sdl-env" trouble An: "Vladimír Čunát" Cc: > The attribute name must be prefixed correctly, was the likely problem. I.e. nixos.pkgs.sdlEnv i

Re: [Nix-dev] "nix-env -i sdl-env" trouble

2013-02-23 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 02/23/2013 12:20 PM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: So by running "nix-env -i env-sdl" (not sdl-env) it works! Yes, I found that too and thought it's seen from the log I sent... but by attribute name it should also work (and it's usually more practical). Perhaps you've changed the attribute name...

Re: [Nix-dev] "nix-env -i sdl-env" trouble

2013-02-23 Thread Bjørn Forsman
On 23 February 2013 12:06, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 02/23/2013 11:15 AM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: >> >> 2) I changed the name to "sdl-env" but it's no good: >> >>[bfo@nixos:~]$ nix-env -i sdl-env >>error: selector `sdl-env' matches no derivations >> >> Hm. Doesn't my nix-env read ~/.nixpkgs/

Re: [Nix-dev] "nix-env -i sdl-env" trouble

2013-02-23 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 02/23/2013 11:15 AM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: 2) I changed the name to "sdl-env" but it's no good: [bfo@nixos:~]$ nix-env -i sdl-env error: selector `sdl-env' matches no derivations Hm. Doesn't my nix-env read ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix? I added your code int o my ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix $ nix

Re: [Nix-dev] "nix-env -i sdl-env" trouble

2013-02-23 Thread Bjørn Forsman
On 23 February 2013 10:56, Vladimír Čunát wrote: > On 02/23/2013 10:51 AM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: >> >> name = "sdl"; > >> [bfo@nixos:~]$ nix-env -i sdl-env >> error: selector `sdl-env' matches no derivations > > > IMO you have a different name. Thanks, but I don't think that's it. 1) I c

Re: [Nix-dev] "nix-env -i sdl-env" trouble

2013-02-23 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 02/23/2013 10:51 AM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: name = "sdl"; [bfo@nixos:~]$ nix-env -i sdl-env error: selector `sdl-env' matches no derivations IMO you have a different name. Vlada smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature __

[Nix-dev] "nix-env -i sdl-env" trouble

2013-02-23 Thread Bjørn Forsman
Hi, I cannot get "nix-env -i sdl-env" to work. I have this: [bfo@nixos:~]$ cat .nixpkgs/config.nix # ~/.nixpkgs/config.nix # Example from nixpkgs/pkgs/misc/my-env/default.nix { packageOverrides = pkgs : with pkgs; { sdlEnv = pkgs.myEnvFun { name = "sdl"; buildInputs = [ std

Re: [Nix-dev] Is ALSA_PLUGINS_DIR being honoured?

2013-02-23 Thread Carles Pagès
Debugging a bit, I found out that ALSA_PLUGIN_DIRS is only used in some code paths. By setting 'lib' in asound.conf, the plugin dirs var is ignored, but I found in the archlinux wiki an alternative configuration to make alsa use pa: pcm.pulse { type pulse } By using this instead of the pcm_type.

Re: [Nix-dev] development environments

2013-02-23 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Lucas Paul's message of Fri Feb 22 21:13:54 +0100 2013: > I'm just learning how to make software in nix (with some help from the > wiki). If I want to use an IDE, say Leksah, should that be in the > build environment too, or should I install that into my default > profile? build envir