Re: [Nix-dev] Binary packages for custom store path installs

2014-06-17 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:19:59 -0400 Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Well, let's not try to decide the undecidable. Would it be so bad to have explicit dependencies? One of Nix's main selling points is that you *don't* need to specify runtime dependencies explicitly. That

Re: [Nix-dev] Oracle Java

2014-06-17 Thread Luca Bruno
On 17/06/2014 13:02, Catonano wrote: Ok, my question is naive. Still it's genuine. I don't know if the Oracle Java JRE is provided as source code or as a binary. How is it provided ? Oracle JDK is required to have neo4j runnning, by the way. I'd like to get my feet wet trying to provide a

[Nix-dev] Oracle Java

2014-06-17 Thread Catonano
Ok, my question is naive. Still it's genuine. I don't know if the Oracle Java JRE is provided as source code or as a binary. How is it provided ? Oracle JDK is required to have neo4j runnning, by the way. I'd like to get my feet wet trying to provide a recipe for it to nixpkgs. I could use

Re: [Nix-dev] Oracle Java

2014-06-17 Thread Catonano
Luca, 2014-06-17 13:08 GMT+02:00 Luca Bruno lethalma...@gmail.com: See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix#L3007 In your nix expression, you should be able to use the oracle jdk by simply using oraclejdk instead of jdk. Why is the oracle jdk really

Re: [Nix-dev] Oracle Java

2014-06-17 Thread Luca Bruno
On 17/06/2014 13:18, Catonano wrote: So both Oracle JRE and Oracle Jdk are already present in the packages collection ? I had missed them ! Well, thanks ! I don't know exactly why neo4j requires Oracle, if you run it on openjdk it issues a warning that malfunctioning could arise. You

Re: [Nix-dev] Packaging Java

2014-06-17 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
On 06/17/2014 01:02 PM, Catonano wrote: Ok, my question is naive. Still it's genuine. I don't know if the Oracle Java JRE is provided as source code or as a binary. How is it provided ? Oracle JDK is required to have neo4j runnning, by the way. I'd like to get my feet wet trying to

[Nix-dev] [PATCH Nix] Flush substituter output upon ‘\r’

2014-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
The patch below changes the store so that it flushes what it reads from the substituter’s stderr when it encounters either a newline or a carriage return. The intent is to allow substituters to provide some kind of progress report, where the status is updated by means of a ‘\r’. As a side

Re: [Nix-dev] Oracle Java

2014-06-17 Thread Kirill Elagin
There is evidence https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15519891/neo4j-unsupported-java-runtime-use-jdk-6-ubuntu-12-04 on the internets that people are happily running neo4j with OpenJDK. It's indeed a good question to ask the developers of neo4j why do they issue this warning, especially since

[Nix-dev] Nix on Mavericks currently completely broken

2014-06-17 Thread John Wiegley
This is just a heads up that if you're on Mavericks running the latest OS X and compiler, you should not update your nixpkgs repository. There was a merge yesterday (commit 1b78ca5) which makes several of the core packages (zlib, gccApple, and more) unable to compile. Hydra passes on these, but

Re: [Nix-dev] Oracle Java

2014-06-17 Thread Michael Raskin
It's indeed a good question to ask the developers of neo4j why do they issue this warning, especially since OpenJDK is listed as a valid JVM in their system requirements http://neo4j.com/docs/2.1.1/deployment-requirements/. As Luca said you shouldn't use OracleJDK unless you have really good