Re: [Nix-dev] [PATCH] Make sure /dev/pts/ptmx is world-writable

2014-04-02 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:41:11PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > While running Python 3’s test suite, we noticed that on some systems > /dev/pts/ptmx is created with permissions 0 (that’s the case with my > Nixpkgs-originating 3.0.43 kernel, but someone with a Debian-originating > 3.1

Re: [Nix-dev] Installing wireless drivers

2014-04-02 Thread Raahul Kumar
The wireless woes continue. My TPlink TL-Wn821N shows up in lsusb, and lsmod, but not elsewhere. I don't see it in iwlist. lsusb Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foun

[Nix-dev] [PATCH] Make sure /dev/pts/ptmx is world-writable

2014-04-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, While running Python 3’s test suite, we noticed that on some systems /dev/pts/ptmx is created with permissions 0 (that’s the case with my Nixpkgs-originating 3.0.43 kernel, but someone with a Debian-originating 3.10-3 reported not having this problem.) There’s still the problem that people

[Nix-dev] Preparing for 14.04

2014-04-02 Thread Shea Levy
Hi all, April is upon us, and April Fool's Day is behind us, and that means it's time for the next NixOS stable release! I'm going to be going through the open issues and marking some with the 14.04 milestone and others with the 14.10, and if you have something you'd really like to get into the re

[Nix-dev] Notice: larger changes in master (unstable channel)

2014-04-02 Thread Vladimír Čunát
Hi, in case you don't follow things closely, you may still want to know the are larger changes in master around now. 1) x-updates got merged today, and probably will hit the unstable channel very soon. It includes mainly: - updating mesa to 10.0.4 + llvm 3.4 - adding glamor to "ati" driver

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-02 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
Oh really? Too bad I missed it! haha From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl [nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl] on behalf of Vladimír Čunát [vcu...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 8:57 PM To: nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl Subject: Re: [Nix-de

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-02 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 04/02/2014 08:43 PM, Vladimír Čunát wrote: It really seemed strange to me from the start, even not considering the date... but then I believed your intentions when I remembered Guix, which was a very similar project from my point of view (only the creator has a different favorite language :-).

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-02 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 04/02/2014 08:38 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI wrote: Well, the package is not a joke. It's actually capable of doing all the things that I described. However, for me it's just a toy project/playground of mostly silly/useless experiments that I collected the the 1.5 years. A few use cases hav

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-02 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
hahaha! Well, the package is not a joke. It's actually capable of doing all the things that I described. However, for me it's just a toy project/playground of mostly silly/useless experiments that I collected the the 1.5 years. A few use cases have a bit of value (like 1%). However, the sugge

Re: [Nix-dev] NiJS package manager

2014-04-02 Thread Colin Putney
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Sander van der Burg - EWI < s.vanderb...@tudelft.nl> wrote: > I have decided to update my blog post with some additional notes based on > the discussion: > Ugh. I fell for it. I even wondered if it could be a joke and then decided "No way! Look at all this code. D

Re: [Nix-dev] Language integration (Was: NiJS package manager)

2014-04-02 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from Matthew Sackman's message of Wed Apr 02 11:18:32 + 2014: > But I'm not sure we're disagreeing, or actually talking about the same > thing. So if I've misunderstood, please do say! But in the end in which way does nix differ from rpms or homebrew etc? Nix allows having multiple ver

Re: [Nix-dev] Installing wireless drivers

2014-04-02 Thread Domen Kožar
For vmware video driver problem see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/2099 For wireless with a GUI manager, I would recommend https://nixos.org/wiki/Network_Manager On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Raahul Kumar wrote: > On 4/2/14, Domen Kožar wrote: > > Try setting "hardware.opengl.video

Re: [Nix-dev] Nixops on headless server

2014-04-02 Thread Marco Maggesi
Hi, there seems to be again a problem with nixops with virtualbox headless nodes. $ nixops deploy -d minicloud webserver> creating VirtualBox VM... webserver> Virtual machine 'nixops-24856f59-ba5b-11e3-a2e6-2d15dd5fa0ff-webserver' is created and registered. webserver> UUID: d6ea884c-3173-4e12-bada

Re: [Nix-dev] Installing wireless drivers

2014-04-02 Thread Raahul Kumar
On 4/2/14, Domen Kožar wrote: > Try setting "hardware.opengl.videoDrivers" > > > Thanks Domen that worked for my videocard. My wireless still doesn't work as of yet, trying the earlier fix suggested. Aloha, RK. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.sc

Re: [Nix-dev] Language integration (Was: NiJS package manager)

2014-04-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 06:03:13PM +, Marc Weber wrote: > Please think the other way round: > - most linux distributions (exceptions LFS I know about) want to install > packages > > Some packages (such as gnome) have dependency information, but only > encoded in "configure" scripts or RE

Re: [Nix-dev] Installing wireless drivers

2014-04-02 Thread Shell Turner
Relevant issue re vmware video driver not building: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/2099 (Just posted this off-list by mistake, oops.) On 2 April 2014 08:59, Raahul Kumar wrote: > I have discovered the vmware video driver won't build. How do I dfisable > this driver from being loaded? I

Re: [Nix-dev] Installing wireless drivers

2014-04-02 Thread Domen Kožar
Try setting "hardware.opengl.videoDrivers" On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Raahul Kumar wrote: > I have discovered the vmware video driver won't build. How do I dfisable > this driver from being loaded? I only have an ATI card, I don't need these > superflous video card drivers being built. Th

Re: [Nix-dev] Installing wireless drivers

2014-04-02 Thread Raahul Kumar
I have discovered the vmware video driver won't build. How do I dfisable this driver from being loaded? I only have an ATI card, I don't need these superflous video card drivers being built. This also explains why the wireless doesn't work .. it never finishes the upgrade. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at